'Airman of the Year' Honored By Mother For Military Monday

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00:00Tampa Bay's morning crew want to honor and thank those who protect and serve our country.

00:05Time now for Military Monday on 99.5 QYK.

00:10It is Military Monday. We got Jennifer on the phone who is honoring her son, William.

00:14Good morning, Jennifer. How are you?

00:16Good. I'm great. How are you?

00:18Good. So we're glad you reached out. Tell us about William and his service to our country.

00:23So he was in the Air Force for seven years.

00:25He had three deployments, and he medically retired last year.

00:30Okay. Wow.

00:31And it looks like he traveled quite a bit for his deployments.

00:34Yeah, nine countries. Yeah.

00:35Wow.

00:36Wow. And he also won an award, right?

00:39He won multiple awards, actually.

00:41He flew a flag in my honor. I think it was over Iran.

00:45There was a military operation, and he flew it in honor.

00:48They fly it in honor of somebody, and then you get the flag that's with a certificate from the Air Force.

00:52And then he also won Airman of the Year twice, two years in a row.

00:57He's won multiple accommodations and just, you know, some awards and some medals.

01:01And they wanted him to stay in the service, actually, because he was so good at what he did.

01:06He was in special ops, and he was a staff sergeant.

01:09There is a lot to be proud of, Mom.

01:11I mean, your son...

01:12Yeah, absolutely.

01:13And he's as good of a human being as he was a serviceman.

01:16I was just going to ask you, what is the one thing that you are most proud of, of him?

01:21You know, it would fall back to my mom.

01:23When my mom was alive, she had Alzheimer's.

01:25And my son, basically, he was young, too.

01:27And he just took her under his wing, and he made sure that he was always by her side and helping her,

01:32because she ended up having a really bad fall, and so she was paralyzed on one side.

01:36And, you know, his just interaction and love with my mom was just something that I will never forget.

01:41And, you know, even as a young boy, he was just very in tune to, you know, compassion and empathy,

01:48and I'm just so proud of him for that.

01:51Very nice.

01:52What are some things that William likes to do when he's not serving our country and not working?

01:57He likes to work out, so he's pretty regimented on, you know, his physical health as well as his mental health.

02:03And that's so important for our service members.

02:05You know, PTSD is such a large problem, you know, and I'm just so happy that he's in a good place.

02:11Absolutely.

02:13Well, God bless him, and here's the deal.

02:15We are so thankful for William's service and what he's done for our country.

02:18We want to do this.

02:19We want to give you a $100 Visa gift card from Stingray Chevrolet to pass on to him.

02:23It's a small way for us to say thank you, Jennifer.

02:25Oh, that is amazing.

02:27Thank you so, so much.

02:28Yes, our pleasure.

02:29And make sure to pass on our love and our thanks to him, okay?

02:33I will do that.

02:33Thank you so much.

02:34Well, those are the stories we love hearing.

02:36We love learning about our service men and women, and we want to learn about that person in your life for Military Monday.

02:40You just go to 995QIK.com to nominate someone.

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