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Vol. 65 No. 46
November 25, 2015
Strike
Eagles
defend
freedom
overseas
U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Cory W. Bush An F-15E Strike Eagle sits on the
flightline at Incirlik Air Base,
Turkey, Nov. 12, 2015. Six F-15Es
from the 48th Fighter Wing
deployed in support of Operation
Inherent Resolve and counter-
Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant missions in Iraq and Syria.
Tribal heritage meeting celebrates Navajo Code Talkers
By Senior Airman Joshua Kleinholz their annual conference by welcoming attack at Pearl Harbor that finally forced His daughters were unaware that he
George Willie with a standing ovation the U.S. into global conflict on Dec. 7, had been anything other than a hard-
99th Air Base Wing Public Affairs that could be heard echoing out the door 1941; when Willie was looking forward to working farmer and dad all of his life
and through the halls of The Club at Nel- his 16th birthday. His daughter, Anabelle until they found documentation from
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. lis Air Force Base. Small Canyon, took to the podium on his honorable discharge from service and
— Members of the traditional Native his behalf and explained how her father started prying.
American community joined senior Dressed in gold silk under a brilliant had joined the U.S. Marine Corps soon
leadership in gathering here Nov. 19 to red vest emblazoned with commemora- after his 17th birthday and became a part “Bits and pieces of various environ-
reflect on their past, address concerns for tive pins and ribbons of his era, Willie of the vitally-important Navajo Code ments would set him off, sort of like
their future, and recognize the efforts of was assisted into the room accompanied Talker program. triggers, and he would just start talking,”
one of their most outstanding surviving by his wife and two of his daughters. He she said.
members — a veteran of World War II sat in his chair and acknowledged the “With my notepad and pencil I waited
and a national treasure. group with a humble wave. He wouldn’t for dad,” she said, explaining to listeners Cooking outside on a fire, the sound
be talking today. that her father only recently began telling of a helicopter overhead, war movies,
After the day’s pressing topics had all bits and pieces of his World War II story.
been addressed, the group concluded The Japanese carried out the surprise ________ See NAVAJO, on page 3
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