Name and Rank: Staff Sgt. James Kopp
Unit: 19th Maintenance Group
Official Duty title: maintenance operations center controller
Hometown: Conway, Arkansas
Time in service: 9 years
Time at Little Rock: 2 years
Goals: Promoting to Tech. Sgt. and earning a computer aided design certification
Hobbies: 3D printing, volunteering at the senior center in Jacksonville
19th Airlift Wing priority portrayed and why?
Kopp augmented the Installation Deployment Readiness Cell during ROCKI 21-02. He coordinated with three squadrons and provided essential information for processing and Phase One execution which enabled the Wing’s first deployment to a Combat Readiness Training Center in ten years. Additionally he filled the Maintenance Operations Center’s Senior Controller position supervising six personnel, managing forty-six aircraft, and executed fifty-four Quick Reaction Checklists for three Major Commands and 2,200 users.