LITTLE ROCK AIR FORCE BASE, Ark. -- Name and Rank: Staff Sgt. Cheryl Johnson
Unit: 314th Maintenance Group
Duty title: Decentralized materiel support supervisor
Hometown: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Time in service: Four years
Time at Little Rock: Three years
Goals: Finish a Master’s degree in psychology and possibly become a linguist
Hobbies: Writing, working out and playing rugby
Air Force Core Value portrayed: Excellence In All We Do
How does the individual portray the core value? Staff Sgt. Johnson leads maintenance supply operations for the swing shift. She provides logistics readiness support for 14 C-130J aircraft, enabling programmed flying training operations to annually produce more than 800 combat airlifters for five major commands and 13 partner nations. Johnson personally revamped the bench stock program by deleting obsolete items to recoup funds back to the Air Force. She has also created a real-time asset tracking system, which improved the 12 hour fix rate by 3.5 percent over a six month period. She also manages the unit’s Due-In From Maintenance program, which enables assets to be returned to the supply pipeline to generate mission capable aircraft.