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Making a Splash: NCO Goes Deep to Re-Enlist

Airman 1st Class Sergio A. Gamboa               said. “He had an Airman re-enlist                                          (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Sergio A. Gamboa)
                                                under water where the sunken U.S.
325th Fighter Wing Public Affairs               Naval Ship General Hoyt S. Van-        Technical Sgt. Robert Barnes, 325th Communications Squadron quality assurance NCO in
                                                denberg is, and then I remembered      charge, holds the U.S. Flag under the ocean water June 26. Barnes had a re-enlistment ceremony
   TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE,                      they sunk some F-101 Voodoo’s off       70 feet under water.
Fla. -- A Tyndall Airman re-enlist-             the coast of Panama City, Fla., so I
ed in a unique way recently, diving             figured why not do it.”                 Navy being the other, and I thought and the date was set: June 26.
approximately 70 feet under water
to swear in for another three and a                Barnes needed an officer who          that was an added bonus.”           When the day began, things were
half years of service.                          was scuba certified to swear him in
                                                so he asked a friend and co-work-      After more than six months of not looking good for Barnes and
   Technical Sgt. Robert Barnes,                er from the U.S. Navy Sea Cadets
325th Communications Squadron                   Corps, a program for young people      putting the pieces in motion, the everyone who was helping. The sky
quality assurance NCO in charge,                ages 13 through 18 that develops an
wanted his re-enlistment to be one              interest and ability in seamanship     big day was just around the corner  See RE-ENLIST, Page 12
he will always remember. He knew                and seagoing skills, Jon Graydon,
it was time for him to re-enlist once           1st Air Force (Air Forces North-
again, but didn’t know how he was               ern) civil support planner at Tyn-
going to do it.                                 dall and an U.S. Marine Reserve
                                                lieutenant colonel. 
   When he was at the Paul W.
Airey NCO Academy, Barnes de-                      “Since he was a retired lieutenant
cided he was going to scuba dive                colonel, I decided to ask him to be
for the big event. Once he had an               the officer to swear me in,” Barnes
indication of what he was going to              said. “With him being the officer to
do, he set things in motion to make             swear me in this time, now marks
his idea happen.                                the third different military branch
                                                officer to do so; Air Force and U.S.
   “I got the idea from one of my
classmates at the NCOA,” Barnes

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