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BULLSEYE                                                                               News                                                       9September 25, 2015

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GIVEAWAY, from page 8________              when the food truck came to Outdoor                             NCO, from page 7____________           the transition from Airman to NCO
                                           Rec for the kickoff event. That was the                                                                is an important milestone in an Air-
put their names in, which consisted of     reason why I couldn’t believe it.”                              the inductees participated in semi-    man’s career.
just writing your name, phone number                                                                       nars with various briefings to help
and email address on a paper and put-         Del Valle has worked at Outdoor Rec                          guide them onto the path to becom-        “There is the transition from being
ting it in the box. We’ve had things on    as an outdoor adventure programmer                              ing successful NCOs.                   an NCO to being a Senior NCO, but
Facebook to let people know where the      since 2010.                                                                                            at that point you’re going from being
box was going to be too.”                                                                                     “We developed a course with the     a leader of a few to being a leader of
                                              “Right now I’m driving an old truck                          career assistance advisors to high-    many. So that change might be a little
   On Sept. 22, the 99th FSS held the      so this is awesome that I get a new                             light topics and get Airmen talking    easier,” said Yarnes. “You’re going
summer finale at The Club, where they      car,” Del Valle said. “To the 99th FSS                          and listening,” said Yarnes. “Courses  from being a follower to all of a sud-
raff led off more tablets, TVs, cameras    and Nellis leadership, I just want to                           ranged from professional relations     den being in charge of other Airmen
and headphones before York drew Del        say thank you so much, this was an                              to a followership group exercise to a  and ensuring that the mission gets
Valle’s name in front of a room full of    incredible opportunity.”                                        career progression brief.”             done. That can be a hard change for
the event’s attendees. Since Del Valle                                                                                                            a lot of people to make.”
was not at the event, due to his work         And to everyone that didn’t win                                 An important part of the transi-
schedule at the Outdoor Recreation         the car, Jones-Bolden offered a bit of                          tion is for NCOs to learn how to          Yarnes hopes that those partici-
Center on base, York called his cell       solace.                                                         professionally handle the close ties   pating in the NCO induction seminar
phone and put the call on speaker                                                                          they may have with the Airmen they     and the ceremony take away that
phone so all could hear. In addition          “We got a lot of calls from people                           work with.                             they are becoming an NCO so they
to winning the car, Del Valle also was     who were upset because we weren’t                                                                      need to be ready to take on increased
given $2,500 spending cash to pay for      having fireworks on the Fourth of July,                            “The transition from the Airman     responsibilities and need to know
the car’s tax, title and licensing fees.   so with the giveaways we wanted peo-                            to NCO tier is an important step in    what people will expect from them
                                           ple to see that this is what we’ve been                         their careers,” said Tech. Sgt. Tyler  as NCOs.
   “(York) said I had a parking ticket on  doing with the money that would’ve                              Meyenburg, 99th Medical Group
base and I didn’t recognize the phone      normally gone into fireworks or other                           NCOIC of nutritional medicine.            “The rewarding part is helping
number either, so I thought it was a       things of that nature. Fireworks last for                       “They need to know how to go about     these new NCOs learn the roles
joke,” Del Valle said. “I’ve never won     an hour and then it’s over until the next                       managing those relationships and       and responsibilities of becoming an
anything that big so I was nervous,        year, but we’re giving away things that                         what changes are going to happen       NCO,” said Meyenburg. “As soon
sweating, jumping, screaming — a lot       are tangible, things that people can use                        when you put on that one extra         as you get that stripe or go through
of emotions. I only put my name in         that last a long time,” she said. “And if                       stripe.”                               Airman Leadership School, you’re
                                           we have the opportunity, we’ll do this                                                                 going to be somebody’s supervisor.”
                                           again next year.                                                   Meyenburg and Yarnes agreed,

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