Dorm Dinner linked with community members, war hero

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  • By Airman 1st Class Chase Hedrick
  • 14th Flying Training Wing Public Affairs
COLUMBUS AIR FORCE BASE, Miss. --  Enlisted dorm members enjoyed the first dorm dinner of the New Year Jan. 27 at the chapel annex here with both special hosts and guests.

The Columbus AFB Military Affairs Committee provided and served barbeque at the meal, taking the time to meet and talk with the junior enlisted members of the base.

The event was another strong show of community support for the base that had won the City of Columbus the first Air Education and Training Command Community Support Award, better known as the Altus award.

"This is very indicative of the type of relationship we have," said 14th Flying Training Wing Command Chief Master Sergeant Zefrem Smith. "As the boss (14th Flying Training Wing commander Col. Barre Seguin) says one of our enabling tasks is cultivating community relations, in other words enabling tasks means we can't do what we do without our community."

Chief Smith was just one of the many leaders who came out to the dorm dinner to show their support. Colonel Seguin also attended and brought with him a veteran of WWII.

Colonel Seguin told those at the dinner that his guest, Joe Johnson, stormed the beaches of Normandy on D day and was in the unit first to free the concentration camp Dochow.

"This is the kind of hero that lives amongst us," he said. "This is the legacy of why we do what we do."