35th CBCS member wins AFRC award Published July 17, 2006 507th Air Refueling Wing Tinker AFB, Okla. -- Recently promoted Master Sgt. Michael Meek, a member of the 35th Combat Communications Squadron, is the 2005 Air Force Reserve Command winner of the Lieutenant General Leo Marquez Award in the category of Communications-Electronics Maintenance. The Lieutenant General Leo Marquez Award is presented to maintainers who have demonstrated the highest degree of sustained job performance, job knowledge, job efficiency and results in the categories of aircraft, munitions/missile, and communications-electronics maintenance. Director of Communications and Information at 4th Air Force, Lt. Col. Ted Dimitt, had this to say about Master Sgt. Meek's recognition: "This reflects, not only on the skills and professionalism of Tech. Sgt. Meek, but our Air Force core values that are a part of the 35th Combat Communications Squadron." Among his many accomplishments, Sergeant Meek led the Maintenance Section during a 4th Air Force Staff Assistance Visit in February 2005, resulting in a 4th Air Force Inspector commenting that the "35th CBCS maintenance activity is the best seen to date within 4th AF." Sergeant Meek supervises a five-person crew and is considered the best at what he does by his commander, Lt. Col. Pete Peterson. "No one I trust more to ensure combat readiness for my combat communications organization." Members of the 35th CBCS can be rapidly deployed anywhere in the world to set up, from scratch, a theatre air base to include satellite communications, telephone switching bands, and base computer networks. They can perform setup, operation, and maintenance of voice and data communications systems essential to wing operations to include all manner of radio, telephones, teletype, and computer systems.