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AIR FORCE STAFF SGT. ANTHONY E. HAYNES
Air Force Staff Sgt. Anthony E. Haynes is
currently deployed overseas at a forward-operating location in
support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Operation Iraqi Freedom is the official
name given to military operations involving members of the U.S.
armed forces and coalition forces participating in efforts to
free and secure Iraq. Mission objectives focus on force
protection, peacekeeping, stabilization, security and
counter-insurgency operations as the Iraqi transitional
governing bodies assume full sovereign powers to govern the
peoples of Iraq.
Members from all branches of the U.S.
military and multinational forces are also assisting in
rebuilding Iraq's economic and governmental infrastructure, and
training and preparing Iraqi military and security forces to
assume full authority and responsibility in defending and
preserving Iraq's sovereignty and independence as a democracy.
The sergeant is an air traffic controller
regularly assigned to the 49th Operation Support Squadron,
Holloman Air Force Base, Alamogordo, New Mexico.
He is the son of Kenneth and Betty Bruce
of W. Tumbleweed Lane, McNeal. His wife, Josie, is the daughter
of Irenio and Maria Martinez of Elfrida.
Haynes graduated in 1998 from Valley Union
High School, Elfrida, and received a bachelor's degree in 2004
from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach,
Florida. He earned a master's degree in 2006 from the
University of Phoenix, Arizona.