"Marines are a tough crowd, and he is our new commander in chief," said Sgt. Maj.
Chief Master Sgt. Eddie Metcalf, a New York City Fire Department captain and a reservist with the 106th, responded on Sept. 11 with Marine Company 1 in its 134-foot firefighting boat.
She is the daughter of Mary Roubos Sharpe of Tampa and the late Chief Master Sgt. W. Dean Sharpe, who was an air traffic controller at MacDill Air Force base in Tampa.
"It's an insurance policy that the United States government buys for people who may go into harm's way, and I hope that no one ever has to collect on it," said Chief Master Sgt. Alan Manuel, who trains the unit's approximately 30 P.J.'s.
Roy D. Prater (Crew Chief), and Sgt. James Harold Alley (combat photographer).
Recalling last year's "flash mob" success, Chief Master Sgt. Jennifer Pagnard, the Band's chief of Marketing and Outreach, said, "Airmen musicians performing holiday classics at an iconic museum in the nation's capital was a winning combination".
The plaintiffs included former Police Chief Robert Pavone, Sgts.
WITH: Michael Kitchen (Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle, Anthony Howelll (Sgt. Paul Milner) and Honeysuckle Weeks (Samantha Stewart).
But the chief still defended Sgt. Brian Stansbury's actions.
