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AFN producer is one of 40 ‘Veterans in Blue’8 December 18, 2015

by George A. Smith
AFN Broadcast Center public affairs

Forty veterans have been singled out for how they helped shape the Air DMA Courtesy photo
Force, including three retired generals, one former Chief Master Sergeant of
the Air Force, and one former Staff Sergeant … Patrice Rock Grant. Former Air Force Staff Sgt. Rock Grant is one of 40 ‘Veterans in Blue’ whose
portraits now hang in the Pentagon as one who has helped shape the Air Force.
The Air Force is honoring Grant and 39 other Air Force Veterans by dis-
playing their portraits in the Pentagon, and featuring them in “Veterans in brothers and sisters who are away from home an opportunity to relax and
Blue,” an online collection showcasing the men and women who have con- watch television,” said Grant.
tributed to the Air Force.
Knowing what it’s like to serve and never forgetting his comrades helps
Grant, a producer for the American Forces Network (AFN) Broadcast him connect with his military audience. Certainly that’s at least part of the
Center at Riverside, California, produces television promotions and original reason why Rock Grant’s portrait now hangs in the Pentagon.
content for U.S. military, DOD civilians and their families serving overseas.
He has a humble way of interacting with Hollywood’s elite and getting them
to open up. For example, Ethan Hawke talked about his Green Beret brother
to Grant. Juliana Moore told the story of life as a military kid in Germany.
Halle Berry reminisced about when she met military personnel overseas. In
2014, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were walking down the red carpet at the
Oscars when they saw the AFN team and waited for them to f inish an inter-
view with Matthew McConaughey so they could send a message of support
to the military serving overseas.

Before joining AFN in 2009, Grant was a director-producer for Air Uni-
versity Television at Maxwell Air Force Base, Georgia. Before that, he
served in the Air Force as a combat broadcaster, Detachment 2, 1st Combat
Camera, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio, and 2nd Combat Camera Flight, Tra-
vis AFB, California. He’s also a graduate of the Military Visual Journalist
Program at Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.

Grant shrugs and glances down when you ask him his feelings on joining
the ranks of such a select, distinctive group of 40 Veterans in Blue.

“I just love working for AFN because it gives me the chance to give to my

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