House Resolution 35 - Introduced

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  1  1                HOUSE RESOLUTION NO.    
  1  2        BY  ALONS, ABDUL-SAMAD, ANDERSON, ARNOLD,
  1  3      BAUDLER, BELL, BERRY, BOAL, BUKTA, CHAMBERS,
  1  4        CLUTE, COHOON, DANDEKAR, DAVITT, DE BOEF,
  1  5    DEYOE, DOLECHECK, DRAKE, FOEGE, FORD, FORRISTALL,
  1  6        FREVERT, GASKILL, GAYMAN, GIPP, GRANZOW,
  1  7      GRASSLEY, GREINER, HEATON, HEDDENS, HOFFMAN,
  1  8        HORBACH, HUNTER, JACOBS, JACOBY, JOCHUM,
  1  9        KAUFMANN, KELLEY, KRESSIG, KUHN, LENSING,
  1 10      LUKAN, LYKAM, MASCHER, MAY, McCARTHY, MERTZ,
  1 11     H. MILLER, L. MILLER, MURPHY, OLDSON, D. OLSON,
  1 12     R. OLSON, S. OLSON, T. OLSON, PALMER, PAULSEN,
  1 13       PETERSEN, QUIRK, RAECKER, RANTS, RASMUSSEN,
  1 14      RAYHONS, REASONER, REICHERT, ROBERTS, SANDS,
  1 15    SCHICKEL, SCHUELLER, SHOMSHOR, SMITH, SODERBERG,
  1 16       STAED, STRUYK, SWAIM, D. TAYLOR, T. TAYLOR,
  1 17       THOMAS, TJEPKES, TOMENGA, TYMESON, UPMEYER,
  1 18       VAN ENGELENHOVEN, VAN FOSSEN, WATTS, WENDT,
  1 19      WENTHE, WESSEL-KROESCHELL, WHITAKER, WHITEAD,
  1 20      WIENCEK, WINCKLER, WINDSCHITL, WISE, WORTHAN,
  1 21         PETTENGILL, BAILEY, HUSEMAN, and HUSER
  1 22 A Resolution to honor the service of the 185th Air
  1 23    Refueling Wing of the Iowa Air National Guard.
  1 24    WHEREAS, the Iowa Air National Guard located in
  1 25 America's heartland at Sioux Gateway Airport in Sioux
  1 26 City, Iowa, houses the 185th Air Refueling Wing, which
  1 27 was originally established in December 1946 as the
  1 28 174th Fighter Squadron and later the 185th Fighter
  1 29 Wing; and
  1 30    WHEREAS, in 2003, the 185th Fighter Wing was
  2  1 redesignated the 185th Air Refueling Wing, flying
  2  2 KC=135E refueling tankers; and
  2  3    WHEREAS, after a half century of dedicated service
  2  4 and numerous citations and commendations, the 185th
  2  5 has once again been recognized for its outstanding
  2  6 performance; and
  2  7    WHEREAS, the 185th has recently earned a rating of
  2  8 "excellent" in its first major operational readiness
  2  9 inspection since it converted from a fighter wing to a
  2 10 tanker unit; and
  2 11    WHEREAS, in January 2007, the 185th sent three
  2 12 KC=135 tanker jets, five crews, and about 200 other
  2 13 members of the guard to join forces with the 186th Air
  2 14 Refueling Wing from Meridian, Mississippi; and
  2 15    WHEREAS, in the inspection conducted at Gulfport,
  2 16 Mississippi, Colonel John Almind, team chief for the
  2 17 Inspector General Team stated:  "The 185th ARW team
  2 18 exhibited extraordinary leadership during an
  2 19 exceptionally difficult time=compressed scenario,
  2 20 successfully recovering the base from simulated
  2 21 attacks, while continuing to generate and fly missions
  2 22 . . . It was obvious that the 185th Air Refueling Wing
  2 23 thoroughly prepared for this mission."; and
  2 24    WHEREAS, grades were given in four major areas:
  2 25 initial response, employment, mission support, and
  2 26 ability to survive and operate; those grades were then
  2 27 rolled into the overall grade of excellent the 185th
  2 28 received; NOW THEREFORE,
  2 29    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
  2 30 That the House of Representatives, on behalf of all
  3  1 Iowans, congratulates the men and women of the 185th
  3  2 Air Refueling Wing of the Iowa Air National Guard and
  3  3 their commander Colonel John Janson for 50 years of
  3  4 dedicated service and honors them for their
  3  5 outstanding efforts in achieving a rating of
  3  6 "excellent" in the Wing's recent operational readiness
  3  7 inspection.
  3  8 LSB 2575HH 82
  3  9 jr:nh/cf/24