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a top White House officials spoke at

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the Kentucky Air National Guard Base on

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March 18th to honor the exceptional

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performance of the one 23rd Airlift

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Wing which earned an extremely rare

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15th Air Force Outstanding Unit Award .

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Richard Reid special assistant to the

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President for National Security affairs

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and Senior Director for resiliency

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policy , spoke to the air at the end of

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the day . Your work speaks for itself .

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That's a , in most cases , that's

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either a really good thing or a really

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bad thing . Uh In your case , it's a

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it's a good thing . Also recognized

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where Kentucky Air National Guard

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Headquarters accepting its ninth Air

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Force organizational excellence award

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and the one 23rd Special tactics

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squadron receiving an Air Force Major

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Tourist Unit award from the Air Force

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Special Operations Command . Colonel

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Greg NElson , commander of the one 23rd

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Airlift Wing addressed his Airman .

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Thank you for continuing our heritage ,

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our heritage that was built from the

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first through the 14th to the 15th .

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Therefore , stand standing unit award

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on the very basics , maintaining 100%

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manning in our unit , ensuring that

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were equipped and well trained and

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we're going to go to the fight anywhere

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anytime . But I want to say thanks to

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the airman basic out there in the

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second Lieutenant And the men and women .

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That this is their first weekend in the

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123rd Airlift Wing because I'm going to

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thank you for the things that you're

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going to do in the future . The things

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that we can't even imagine right now .

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During the award period , which ran

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from October 2009 to September 2011 ,

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the wing deployed 741 personnel to 32

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locations in 21 countries with the

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Kentucky Air National Guard . This is

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Tech Sergeant , Jason Ketterer

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reporting .