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Show HILLTOP TIMES ^ (Left to right) Air$Knan 1st Class Robby (•J&'drick, 75th Air Base •:3p::VVing Public Affairs specialist, applauds as flfitiro Brandon Jordan, he founder of Mandala Mandiriga and 'if^di rector of the West Dast division of the Sadiq Warrior Arts [^Federation, awards Iris Crismon, of the 5*:*Ogden Air Logistics - Center Manpower : division, with an I Instructor Level 1 iertification and title of Utah Director for Z Sadiq Warrior Arts igcat the conclusion of M the inaugural Utah ; Filipino Martial Arts 1 _ Workshop held in -, West Haven, Feb. 4. TIMES 9 February 11, 2010 art form by attending seminars, and distance learning courses. From page 7 "I will also take the op- -' portunity to teach or host seminars on base if and when the Utah directorship to Crismon, who has been study- space becomes available. In the meantime I will just offer ing various forms of martial arts for more than 13 years. opportunities, informally, to "I specialize in Wing Chun work out in a club-type setkung fu," said Crismon. ting," he added. 'Wing Chun complements my Crismon said that although role in Sadiq Warrior Arts by this responsibility has no adding to the knowledge base direct relation to his responsiof the system." bilities within the OO-ALC, he feels "that it does, however, ' During last week's workshop, Crismon was also complement the Warrior awarded Instructor Level 1, ethos that all of our deploy"meaning he is in the process able Airmen, Soldiers, Sailors of learning the Sadiq Warrior and Marines need." Arts system at the instrucUpon completion of the tor level versus the student 2010 Air Force Wrestling level," said Hedrick. Camp, Hedrick will complete a permanent change of staIn his role as Utah direction to Aviano Air Base, Italy. tor, Crismon will promote Once stationed there, Hethe Sadiq Warrior Art form drick will accept the title of within the states of Utah and European director for Sadiq Idaho and continue his own Warrior Arts Federation. growth within the martial SADIQ § LEE ANNE HENSLEY Hilltop Times WARBLITZ From page 7 to work, he heard Kimball Clark being interviewed orr National Public Radio about Clark's efforts in recording as many veterans and some WWII civilians as he can in an attempt to save their stories and was looking for others to help. So he volunteered. , Cocanour has interviewed two veterans so far and intends to assist Clark, WarBlitz.com creator, in capturing as many veterans' war experiences as possible sometime before the end of this year. Cocanour has video recorded Wallace.Qatrell, a ^ WWII supply troop and Korean War tank officer, and Glen Paulsen, U.S. Navy WWII chief petty officer and civil servant, as the two were interviewed by someone else and finds the experience to* be quite amazing. "It was a great way for me to combine my passion for history and my (yideo) skills/' he said. Video recording helps capture some of the emotions of the veterans, ?*You can see it in the ^ and in their faces." resulting interviews are to be compiled on- Google's experimental new search feature called GAUDI if all efforts to that effect prevail and Kirnball's col- Courtesy photo Retired Chief Navy Petty Officer Glen Paulsen is shown in a photo taken before the Korean War, one of the veterans Tech. Sgt. Paul Cocanour filmed as he was interviewed. laboration with Google bears out. The interviews will be searchable by j^hr^Sje and do not have to be transcribed in their entirety in order to be accessed. "The great thing about this is that someone does not have to sit down for two hours and listen to an entire tape before finding out whether or not the information they are searching for is on that tape," "I learned a lot about World War II (from the Web site). There are so many stories from so many different sectors of the world. I learned a lot about World War II doing this — the war was being fought on almost every continent," Cocanour said. So far 15 people have been interviewed by the Photo courtesy of Paul Cocanour/WarBlitz.com A Red Cross bag of toiletries saved by one of the World War II veterans whom Tech. Sgt. Paul Cocanour filmed as someone asked him questions. project. Says Cocanour, "Stuff that they saw is real similar to the stuff that I saw when I was there." He has deployed several times in the contingency efforts and fighting two wars and he said in some ways it was reassuring to see that there aren't a lot of changes. "It might be a different war but your stories and your experiences almost seem to correlate in a different time but the same kind of stories is really interesting. "Just that they didn't have enough toiletries," he said. "It was the same for us." One of the veterans interviewed still had a bag of toiletries provided by the Red Cross during WWII. "He still had the bag. It moved him so much at the time that he got these simple amenities ... that he kept it," Cocanour said. The toilet paper was still in the bag, a sewing kit and some bits of candy. "It really opens your eyes into their great sacrifices," he said, although Federal Women's Program Personnel officials are seeking applicants for a collateral duty position — Black Employment Program Manager (Announcement No. BEP 01-10). The position closes Feb. 18. As a collateral duty position, the employee will perform the duty in addition to regularty assigned responsibilities. 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"I just wanted to serve my country," or "I don't Cocanour's grandfasee why I need to be ther was attached to a praised for it." special search and rescue unit so in 2000 there If their stories aren't told, Cocanour said, they were only 14 surviving pilots of his unit. He might be gone forever. Awhile back a military died in May 2001. records storage facility "The last time he atburned down, and with tended (before he died) it went a lot of personal there were only 14 and records on paper. that was 10 years ago/' Cocanour said. "I believe One of the veterans there are only four or lfc( interviewed by the proj, five living now," _ _ ect had a copy of a record to prove that he had Videographers, interserved in the military viewers, photo scanners and those with some film in WWII, or he wouldn't editing skills are needed have been able to prove it when needed for his for the project. benefits. 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