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Show HILLTOP TIMES TODD CROMAR/U.S. Air Force Airman Leadership School Class 2011-H grads gather at the ceremony on Nov. 4. ALS graduates bring excellence to education BY MARY Lou CORNY Hilltop Times editor A group of forty Airmen, staff sergeant selects and staff sergeants graduated Nov. 4 from Airman Leadership School in a ceremony held at Club Hill. The audience consisted not only of family, friends, leaders and supporters but local representatives of universities which have memorandums of understanding with the Air Force which allows them to hold classes on base. Each of the schools has decided to offer a scholarship to help pay for books when a recipient attends the respective school following graduation from ALS. The requirements and amounts vary for each university. Education is something the Air Force is highlighting through its emphasis of declaring it Year of the Community College of the Air Force, and both representatives were enthusiastic about the relationships their respective schools have with the U.S. military services. "To help the Airmen get their education — it's not just experience that they need any more once they get out of the Air Force," said Linda Maston, director of Academic Support at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. "They need the education. They need their Community College of the Air Force (degree) and bachelor's degrees, not just for their personal development but for their professional development." Jeanie Erekson, senior director for Webster University said prior to the graduation, "In business schools students can learn how to run a business but the companies need them to learn how to have leadership skills and how to manage people, so I think it is exciting that there is a leadership school where they can attend and learn these different skills on how to manage people." Chief Master Sgt. Max Grindstaff, command chief for the 75th Air Base Wing and Ogden Air Logistics Center, said, "Programs like these scholarships and opportunities like the scholarship program are part of the means to get our Airmen to the level TIMES we'd like them to be at with the least amount of anxiety as possible on the homefront when it comes to paying for school." Teresa Weaver, ALS student director and flight line mechanic from the 309th Maintenance Wing, also emphasized the importance of education by quoting novelist Ralph Ellison after the ceremony. "Education builds bridges," she said. "It's a good opportunity for the students to be in Airman Leadership School." Master Sgt. Aimee Pineault, superintendent of the 75th Aerospace Medical Squadron and audience member, said the scholarships were important and helpful. "One semester my books cost $415," she said, as she talked about the potential costs, adding that was just for two classes. As keynote speaker for the event, Master Sgt. Steven Barbour, superintendent for Plans and Programs, 75th Air Base Wing, took up the leadership aspect of pride in ownership. One portion of his presentation included his role as someone who had helped conduct a predeployment program early in his career at Vandenberg Air Force Base. He was asked to help build the program from the ground up and he enthusiastically began his part. During his duties as a noncommissioned officer he was training a captain who he described as very energetic but perhaps a little hard-headed. 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