Email from October 1st Click here to view the Alert on the MDAA website Follow and Support MDAA   MDAA Alert: Alaska Missile Defender of the Year 2024 Alaska Missile Defender of The Year, Anchorage, Alaska, September 28, 2024 Dear Members and Friends, In honor and recognition of our Nation’s homeland missile defense keeping all 50 states defended against a nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile, the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance held our 9th Alaska Missile Defender of the Year Award Ceremony in Anchorage, Alaska on Saturday, September 28, 2024. This recognition of our best of the best military operators in the ground-based missile defense system deployed in Alaska over the past year joined our momentous “Think Big Go Fast” campaign dedicated to the anniversary of 20 years of GMD operations for the defense of the United States of America which we celebrated at Fort Greely, Alaska on September 30, 2024. The event, our 77th Missile Defender of the Year honored our Nation’s best Missile Defense crews that operate and defend the 40 Ground Based Interceptors at Fort Greely, Alaska and operate the Upgraded Early Warning Radar at Clear Space Base, Alaska. In today’s world and what happened this week to Israel, it is of assurance and comfort for our nation and to the world that the United States of America is defended from nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles. Ladies and Gentlemen, our 2024 Alaska Missile Defenders: Echo Crew, Fire Direction Center First Lieutenant Trent Bishop 49th Missile Defense Battalion SSG Van A. Lugo Vazquez 49th Missile Defense Battalion First Lieutenant Austyn Haider 49th Missile Defense Battalion Major Gilberto Ortiz 49th Missile Defense Battalion Sergeant Nickolas K. Goolsby 49th Missile Defense Battalion GBI Security Company Sergeant Carlos A. Regalado 49th Missile Defense Battalion Sergeant First Class Colton Spradlin 49th Missile Defense Battalion Mission Support Element Crew Technical Sergeant Richard R. Seeger III 213th Space Warning Squadron Technical Sergeant Gabriel Ramirez 213th Space Warning Squadron Captain Anthony Austin Deppe 213th Space Warning Squadron World Champions associate with World Champions to Win Riki Ellison Chairman and Founder Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance   Click Here to Join MDAA _____________________________________________________________________ MDAA is a non-profit, non-partisan tax-exempt 501(c) (4) organization. Our mission is to make the world safer by advocating for the development and deployment of missile defense systems to defend the United States and its allies against missile threats. We are a membership-funded organization that does not advocate on behalf of any specific system, technology, architecture or entity. Founded in 2002, MDAA is the only organization in existence whose primary mission is to recruit, organize, and mobilize proponents to advocate for the critical need of missile defense. Visit our website www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org for more information.   Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance 515 King Street, Suite 330 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone: (703) 299-0060 Email: [email protected]   Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance | 515 King Street Suite 330 | Alexandria, VA 22314 US Unsubscribe | Constant Contact Data Notice