Name and Rank: Staff Sgt. Matthew Sanders
Unit: 19th Logistics Readiness Squadron
Official Duty title: flight support supervisor
Hometown: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Time in service: 13 years
Time at Little Rock: 3 years and 7 months
Goals: Become a First Sergeant; Complete CCAF
Hobbies: Hunting, fishing, wood-working and working on autos
19th Airlift Group priority portrayed and why?
Staff Sgt. Sanders supported the Wing's initiative in demonstrating the effectiveness of Agile Combat employment tactics, techniques and procedures. He deployed with the 61st Airlift Squadron as lead Joint Inspector in support of the Catalina Weapons Mixer. During this exercise, the Wing delivered a R-11 fuel truck required to perform the first live-execution Wet Wing defuel operation transferring 24,000 pounds from a C-130J to an R-11 and then used this fuel to refuel A-10s. This success reinforced conditions to achieve the Chief of Staff's accelerate change priority.