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Indo-Pacific Air & Missile Defender of The Year Award Ceremony 2024

December 12, 2024
INDOPACOM Missile Warning/Missile Defender of the Year 2024, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 4th, 2024

Aloha, Members and Friends,

In Team building and Team recognition for the Indo-Pacific Missile Defense Team, we set the conditions of trust and honor in recognition of our best Missile Defense defenders from our Nation and from our Pacific Allies and Partners in hosting the Indo-Pacific Air & Missile Defender of The Year Award Ceremony 2024 this past Wednesday, December 4th in Honolulu, Hawaii. This marks our 5th Indo-Pacific Air & Missile Defender of the Year and our 79th Missile Defender of the Year event in recognizing 974 recipients from 22 nations. This year, 2024, we brought the Pacific Missile Defense Team together like no other year before in international participation as we hosted our allies and partners in a winning, trusting setting with our United States joint force and from Australia, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, India, Canada, France, and The United Kingdom. Brigadier General Patrick Costello, the 94th AAMDC Commander and the Leader of the Indo-Pacific Missile Defense Team, provided vision, togetherness, honor, and leadership, inspiring all to make the Indo-Pacific safer. We honored our best of the best warfighters and missile defense operators in the INDOPACOM for 2024 from the United States and our Pacific Allies as the World Champions in this vital and critical mission.

Congratulations to our World Champions of Missile Defense from the Indo-Pacific

Introducing our 2024 Indo-Pacific Air & Missile Defender of the Year awardees

MG. Tomikawa Japan Air Development Tactical Wing, JASDF 
Bombardier Thomas Mackenzie Cranage – Serving member of the 16 Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. 
Chief Warrant Officer 4 Anthony J. Sarago – Standardization Officer, ADAFCO, and Planner, 94th AAMDC US ARMY. 
Sergeant Jose Reyes – Tactical Data Link Manager, 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command US ARMY. 
Sergeant Jose Reyes – Tactical Data Link Manager, 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command US ARMY. 
Sergeant Destiny Sha’derrika Middleton – USMC MACS-4, MACG-18, 1st MAW Tactical Air Defense Controler. 
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Technical Sergeant Robert M. Boyce – Missile Warning & Defense Controller, HQ USINDOPACOM USSF 
Sergeant Pedro A. Gonzalez-Ocasio – USMC Marine Air Support Squadron 3 Operations Platoon Sargeant 
Sergeant James T. Sullivan – Space Watch Operator, Space Forces Indo-Pacific USSF 

Mahalo

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