Lt Col Andrew Baer, Capt Andrew Braegelmann, MSgt Mark Jenkins Jr., Capt Andrew Mortensen, MSgt Ryan Nonenmacher, SSgt Joi Gill, TSgt Ingrid Ramirez, TSgt Patrick McElroy, TSgt Deiadra Wallace, MSgt David Lowe, and TSgt Manuel Salinas.
Left to right: Lt Col Andrew Baer, Capt Andrew Braegelmann, MSgt Mark Jenkins Jr., Capt Andrew Mortensen, MSgt Ryan Nonenmacher, SSgt Joi Gill, TSgt Ingrid Ramirez, TSgt Patrick McElroy, TSgt Deiadra Wallace, MSgt David Lowe, and TSgt Manuel Salinas.

AMC Safety Outstanding Achievement Award, Category II

By Staff Writer

60th Air Mobility Wing Safety Office
Travis Air Force Base, CA

The 60th Air Mobility Wing Safety Office at Travis Air Force Base (AFB), CA, led by Lt Col Andrew J. Baer, safeguarded the largest Air Mobility Command (AMC) wing by completing forty-one annual inspections of 414 facilities, protecting sixteen thousand personnel and fifty-five aircraft. They oversaw three explosive site plans and strengthened AMC’s rapid deployment capabilities, allowing safe transport of forty-seven million pounds of cargo in support of fourteen high-priority operations.

The team also led an expeditionary mishap response team following a Travis AFB Aeroclub aircraft crash. During OPERATION NORTHERN STRIKE, they partnered with two wings to implement sixty-seven risk controls, supporting seven thousand joint forces and cementing the Air Force’s first three-hundred-level certification event. The team was subsequently honored with the Air and Space Outstanding Unit Award.