Combat Airlifter of the Week: Airman 1st Class Marshall Steffens

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  • By Airman 1st Class Maria Umanzor Guzman
  • 19th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

Name and Rank:   Airman 1st Class Marshall Steffens

Unit: 41st Airlift Squadron

Official Duty title: Mission Loadmaster

Hometown: Becker, Minnesota

Time in service: 2.5 years

Time at Little Rock: 1.5 years

Goals:  To become a 20-year career loadmaster

Hobbies: hunting, fishing, outdoors

19th Airlift Wing priority portrayed and why?

As a 41st Airlift Squadron mission loadmaster, Steffens has coordinated joint airdrop inspections to airlift and airdrop during a Yokota Airborne Exercise working with PACOM partners.

Additionally, Steffens aced a sequential Heavy Equipment airdrop in an integrated exercise during JPMRC-Alaska 23-02.

Lastly, he showcased a C-130J Super Hercules static display to 77 elementary students, inspiring the future generation of leaders.