JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDOSN, Alaska -- Name: SrA Vincent Wilson
Unit: 773d Civil Engineer Squadron
Job Description: Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Journeyman
Time in service: 3 years
Previous Assignments: Lackland AFB, Basic Training and Sheppard AFB, Technical School
Accomplishments: SrA Wilson is the section's Physical Training Leader. He leads and plans exercises for 26 personnel three times a week. The section, currently, has the highest fitness percentage within the squadron versus all other sections. Sr A Wilson responded to a loss of heat call at the fuels laboratory. He quickly ID'd and replaced a faulty transformer, thus ensuring minimal down time for the JP-8 evaluation process. Sr A Wilson also upgraded a heat exchanger during the seasonal boiler maintenance for the Child Development Center. During the project, he replaced 20 feet of corroded pipe and readied the heating system for the I 0 million dollar facility to warm 80 staff members and children for the following winter. Finally, Sr A Wilson executed 20 tests as a member of the furnace and boiler combustion evaluation team. His calibration of air and fuel ratios for 15 equipment items' led to increased efficiency and life span of the units.