AMC Individual Weapons Safety Award

TSgt Daniel S. Santos
62d Airlift Wing, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA

TSgt Daniel S. Santos of the 62d Airlift Wing Safety Office, Joint Base Lewis‑McChord, WA, was awarded this year’s Air Mobility Command (AMC) Individual Weapons Safety Award.

Santos filled a critical Air Forces Central shortfall in Jordan, cleared a four‑year explosive site plan backlog, and corrected 649 facility records. He trained experts from ten bases on AMC’s new risk‑based siting program and led a sixty-eight percent expansion of the weapons storage capacity at Dover Air Force Base, DE. He executed major program evaluations, developed 101 site plans at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, and authored waivers moving thirty-two thousand pounds of explosives into the Pacific Air Forces area of responsibility. He advised commanders across seventeen inspections, safeguarding $8.2 billion in assets, resolved critical routing challenges, and delivered risk analysis to eliminate a four‑month waiver backlog.