Air Force Master Sergeant Honored By Wife For Military Monday
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00:00Tampa Bay's morning crew want to honor and thank those who protect and serve our country.
00:05Time now for Military Monday on 99.5 QYK.
00:10It is Military Monday. We get to honor somebody right here from our community who serves our country.
00:16It takes such a special person to do this.
00:18And I love it when people want to call up and brag on the people in their family and those that they love.
00:23And today we have Jennifer on the phone. Good morning, Jennifer. How are you?
00:27Good morning. How are you?
00:28Now your husband has been serving our military. Tell us a little bit about him.
00:34He's a master sergeant in the Air Force. He's currently stationed at MacDill.
00:39He's been in the Air Force for 18 years as a security force defender.
00:44He's deployed three times and has had one hardship tour away from us.
00:48Holy cow. So have you been with him from the beginning of his career?
00:53The whole time he's been serving, yeah.
00:55We actually met a few months before he joined the military and we've been together ever since.
00:59Wow. So you stuck it through all these years.
01:04Yes.
01:05Oh my gosh.
01:05So, you know, you've been doing this for so long.
01:08I can't imagine it gets any easier.
01:12But what is maybe something that you've just come to terms with, with, you know,
01:16having a husband who's been serving and being deployed all these, all these years?
01:22Family and friends are definitely important.
01:25I've been a close-knit group of family and friends just to help out when needed.
01:29Yeah.
01:30Definitely.
01:31Now, because he serves, I mean, have you guys moved around a lot?
01:34I mean, it's probably hard to have family and friends help you.
01:38So we've been to Wyoming, Maryland.
01:41He actually went to Korea for a year without us and we moved back to Tampa for that year.
01:47And then he was stationed over, we got blessed and was stationed over in Patrick Air Force Base,
01:52which is in Brevard County, for five years.
01:54And then his last basin is actually MacDill.
01:58So we've definitely been blessed these last couple years.
02:00So is this where he's going to retire then?
02:04Are you guys done moving around?
02:06Yes.
02:06Done.
02:07Done.
02:08Awesome.
02:09We've got two more years and, yep, we'll be done.
02:11Now, do you think he's actually really going to be done?
02:14Because it seems like a lot of these guys retire, but then they have a calling to go back in
02:19or continue doing some sort of work to help out those in the military.
02:24I think his plans are to hopefully get something at the base.
02:28Yeah.
02:28He likes the contract, he's thinking about doing the contracting.
02:32Not really sure exactly.
02:34We have a 14-year-old daughter and an 11-year-old son, so we definitely want to stay here.
02:38And this is where we're from, actually.
02:40Oh, that works out good.
02:42Yeah.
02:42So when he finally gets a chance to take the uniform off, what do you guys like to do?
02:46A lot of outdoor stuff.
02:48He's very into sports, golfing, fishing.
02:51Again, we have an 11-year-old boy.
02:53He helps to coach his baseball team.
02:55Very cool.
02:56Just go to a sporting event.
02:59A lot of family stuff.
03:01Well, you know, like I said, it takes a very special person to serve in our military.
03:07And we always say that it's not just the person serving, but it's the person at home.
03:11I mean, you sacrifice so much as well.
03:14Raising kids while he's out serving our country.
03:16We want to thank you as well as your husband, Garen.
03:20And our friends at Stingray Chevrolet would like to give you a $100 Visa gift card just to say thank you.
03:28Just something nice you can do.
03:30You can go to dinner.
03:30You can take it to buy something.
03:33Maybe go buy a round of golf that he loves to do.
03:36Just say thank you for serving our country.
03:38It's not much, but at least we just wanted to honor him and recognize him today on our station.
03:44Well, thank you.
03:45We appreciate that.
03:46And just like that, you can brag on your loved one, too.
03:48Just go to 99.5QYK.com.
03:51Find Military Monday under Tampa Bay's Morning Crew.
03:53And sign up to talk about somebody in your family or friend group that is serving our country.
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