America's North Shore Journal

“She’s the epitome of what today’s Airmen can do,” said Master Sgt. Cleven Allen, 376th ELRS fuels superintendent, “She’s every supervisor’s dream come true.”

“I knew I was getting close to the two million gallon mark because they sent us updates,” said Drefs, “but I did not know that Lt. Gen. North would be there until just before I headed to the plane. It was great how it worked out for him to be there.”

Drefs is no stranger to the limelight when only a month prior she was selected as one of only two deployed Air Force members to receive a Thanksgiving Day morale call, from President George W. Bush.

Altoon, like many parents, was concerned about the possibility of Megan deploying to a combat zone. That is, until she met her daughter’s recruiter, Army Sgt. 1st Class Jessica Dean of the Fremont, Calif., recruiting station. Dean proved to be a persuasive recruiter.

Photos: All female 332nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron Fly Away Security Team

Photo: Texas National Guard Soldier Pvt. Simone Garner, originally from Germany, is sworn in as a U.S. citizen during a naturalization ceremony at the Veterans Day ceremony Nov. 11, 2008 at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery.

Photo: Chief Storekeeper Marie Toffolo cries as she is greeted by her father during her return from a nine-month individual augementee tour in Gardez, Afghanistan.

Photo: Parachute Rigger 3rd Class Carley Stevenson, embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), shows a local boy pictures that were taken of him on her camera while helping to renovate East Ruimveldt Community Center during the humanitarian/civic assistance mission Continuing Promise (CP) 2008.

Photo: Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Sara Larson, assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), helps paint the East Ruimveldt Community Center during the humanitarian/civic assistance mission Continuing Promise (CP) 2008.