"Commander's Wingman of Choice" is just Dandy!

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SHEPPARD AIR FORCE BASE, Texas --  Tech. Sgt. Amethia Dandy of the 363rd Training Squadron was named the the 82nd TRW "Commander's Wingman of Choice" award winner for the week of Nov. 12 - 16.

The 82nd Training Wing "Commander's Wingman of Choice" award program is the commander's way of acknowledging Airmen for a job well done and to recognize Airmen who exemplify the spirit of the program.

Criteria for consideration include outstanding duty performance, community involvement and exemplary leadership.

Go by name: "Dandylion" is her nickname

Duty title: Miltitary Training Leader and Student Scheduler

Hometown: College Park, Georgia

Years of service and time on Sheppard: 2 yrs at Sheppard, 15.5 yrs in USAF

Family: Two sons and a daughter

Education: Working towards Bachelors in Human Resource Management, graduated from NCOA this year and has already completed the SNCO Joint PME.

What inspires you: The Airmen! Getting to see an Airmen's life change over the few weeks they are here and just hoping that I had something to do with that.

Future goals: Complete Bachelors, get promoted, retire from USAF and get a job in Human Resource Management, hopefully as a GS employee

Greatest accomplishment: Making it in the Air Force for 15.5 yrs. "If you had asked me 15 yrs ago where I would be, this is the last thing I would have said."

Hobbies, off-duty interests: Outside of running kids to karate and other after school activities, she is very active in squadron sports. Played on squadron softball team and flag football team. She was one of the league's most feared rushers!!

Reason for submission:  Tech. Sgt. Dandy is our Primary Scheduler, she processes Airman departures daily to ensure their requirements for overseas or stateside assignments are met prior to leaving for first duty station.

As a personnelist in her primary career field, she has fully utilized her expertise to streamline the Airmen's assignment process within 363rd military training flight and has worked hard with 82 FSS Student Assignments and 82 MDG agencies to ensure maximum continuity to ensure clearances amd appointments are processed in a timely manner. 

Dandy was instrumental teaming with the 82 FSS Student Assignment section to reorganize the student ouprocessing checklist to be more user-friendly to the Airman. She has narrowed down 363's students out of Training status by 93% and has continued this trend for three months running, saving over $11,000 in just daily student living costs.

Just over the last quarter, she has managed the departures of over 500 students in 5 AFSCs with a 100% on-time departure rate.

Commander's comments:  "Tech. Sgt. Dandy is one of the hardest working NCOs I have met. She is the grease that keeps the wheels moving with our student processing. Her efforts working with FSS have been outstanding and she is totally selfless. As much work as she has done, it was her that still asked me to go to FSS student assignments and coin them. She is that person that is behind the scenes that this Air Force could not function without." - Maj. Oliver Ulmer, 363rd TRS commander