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personnel programs, go to myPers. Individ- Master Sgt. of the Air Force, James Cody. represented the Air Force as senior enlisted
uals who do not have a myPers account can Cody said these words as he delivered the adviser on the President’s Commission on
request one by following the instructions Military Compensation.
on the Air Force Retirees Services website. eulogy for former Chief Master Sgt. of the Air
Force James Binnicker Aug. 14 at the Fort http://www.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/223/
http://www.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/223/ Meyer post chapel in Arlington, Virginia.
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432nd Wing has directly supported Op-
The Air Force selected 13,269 for promo- “If you’ve met Chief Binnicker, you’re a eration Inherent Resolve, a U.S. Central
tion to staff sergeant out of 39,260 consid- better Airman today for it, for those mo- Command and partner nation’s campaign
ered during the 2015 E5 cycle, for a 33.8 ments, or that moment you spent together,” to conduct targeted airstrikes in Iraq and
percent selection rate. Cody said. “If you’ve met Chief Binnicker, Syria as part of the comprehensive strategy
you’re better prepared to lead because of to degrade and defeat the Islamic State of
The staff sergeant promotion selection the truth and wisdom he likely shared, even Iraq and the Levant.
list was posted to the myPers enlisted when the truth hurt a little.”
promotion page at 8 a.m. Thursday CDT. While the RPA mission in Iraq and Syria
The list is also available on the Air Force Binnicker was born in Orangeburg, South initially focused on information gathering
Carolina, on July 23, 1938. He, like many and battlespace awareness, the 432nd
others, was drawn to the possibility of one WG’s involvement quickly escalated as the
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cycle to incorporate the Weighted Airman hearing loss in his right ear prevented him real-time operations.
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skills knowledge test scores, as well as Force in 1957 and spent most of his early tionary Wing has contributed approximate-
lower time-in-service and time-in-grade. FDUHHURQWKHÁLJKWOLQH ly 4,300 sorties, employed 1,000 weapons
and conducted 400 ‘buddy lase.’ A buddy
Selectees will be promoted according Originally in the personal equipment lase is when aircrew from one aircraft uses
to their promotion sequence number. Se- FDUHHUÀHOG%LQQLFNHUFURVVWUDLQHGLQWRDLU a combat laser to guide weapons released
quence or line numbers are updated on operations. While deployed to Vietnam, he DQRWKHUDLUFUDIWWRDWDUJHW$PDMRULW\RI
or around the 15th of each month on the SODQQHGÁLJKWVIRUPLVVLRQVZLWKWKHQG the sorties and strikes were performed by
enlisted promotion line numbers page. Tactical Air Support Squadron. the 432nd WG. The strikes are an experi-
ence Capt. Ryan, a 15th RS Predator pilot,
http://www.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/223/ After Vietnam and before serving as knows all too well.
Article/613515/af-selects-13269-for-staff-ser- the ninth chief master sergeant of the Air
geant-release-date-aug-20.aspx Force, Binnicker spent time as the senior http://www.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/223/
enlisted adviser for the 12th Air Force,
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Headquarters Tactical Command. He also
“If you’ve met Chief Binnicker, you’ve tions-to-be-on-new-epr-form.aspx
met an icon — a hero, a legend,” said Chief
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