Email from December 12th Click here to view the Alert on the MDAA website Follow and Support MDAA   MDAA Alert: Indo-Pacific Air & Missile Defender of The Year Award Ceremony 2024 INDOPACOM Missile Warning/Missile Defender of the Year 2024, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 4th, 2024 Aloha, Members and Friends, In Team building and Team recognition for the Indo-Pacific Missile Defense Team, we set the conditions of trust and honor in recognition of our best Missile Defense defenders from our Nation and from our Pacific Allies and Partners in hosting the Indo-Pacific Air & Missile Defender of The Year Award Ceremony 2024 this past Wednesday, December 4th in Honolulu, Hawaii. This marks our 5th Indo-Pacific Air & Missile Defender of the Year and our 79th Missile Defender of the Year event in recognizing 974 recipients from 22 nations. This year, 2024, we brought the Pacific Missile Defense Team together like no other year before in national participation as we hosted our allies and partners in a winning, trusting setting with our United States joint force and from Australia, Japan, the Philippines, India, Canada, France, and The United Kingdom. Brigadier General Patrick Costello, the 94th AAMDC Commander and the Leader of the Indo-Pacific Missile Defense Team, provided vision, togetherness, honor, and leadership, inspiring all to make the Indo-Pacific safer. We honored our best of the best warfighters and missile defense operators in the INDOPACOM for 2024 from the United States and our Pacific Allies as the World Champions in this vital and critical mission. Congratulations to our World Champions of Missile Defense from the Indo-Pacific Introducing our 2024 Indo-Pacific Air & Missile Defender of the Year awardees MG. Tomikawa Japan Air Development Tactical Wing, JASDF Bombardier Thomas Mackenzie Cranage - Serving member of the 16 Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. Chief Warrant Officer 4 Anthony J. Sarago - Standardization Officer, ADAFCO, and Planner, 94th AAMDC US ARMY. Sergeant Pedro A. Gonzalez-Ocasio - USMC Marine Air Support Squadron 3 Operations Platoon Sargeant Sergeant Jose Reyes - Tactical Data Link Manager, 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command US ARMY. First Lieutenant Michael A. Perea – USMC Marine Air Support Squadron 3 Air Defense Control Officer. Sergeant Destiny Sha’derrika Middleton – USMC MACS-4, MACG-18, 1st MAW Tactical Air Defense Controler. Technical Sergeant Robert M. Boyce - Missile Warning & Defense Controller, HQ USINDOPACOM USSF Sergeant James T. Sullivan - Space Watch Operator, Space Forces Indo-Pacific USSF Mahalo Winners Ascociate With Winners 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