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Two 100th Missile Defense Brigade officers earned top honors at the Army Air Defense Artillery Basic Officer Leader Course, during a graduation ceremony at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, on Dec. 4.

Representing the 100th Missile Defense Brigade headquarters in Colorado Springs, 2nd Lt. Ira Jinkins was selected as the Lt. Gen. Kassidy Honor Graduate, and, from the 49th Missile Defense Battalion at Fort Greely, Alaska, 2nd Lt. Jose Montalvo was named the Col. Tedesco Leadership Award winner, both for Class 03-20 SHORAD Track Phase.

Both officers were commissioned through the National Guard’s Officer Candidate School program, and each relied on his respective background and experience throughout the course.

“I think my experience in the military helped,” said Jinkins, who enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1999 and has served in the Colorado Army National Guard since 2004. “Going through the Ground-based Midcourse Defense Fire Control Qualification Course was also helpful. There, I got something like a 95.78 percent and that is barely passing for GQC. That experience instilled a work and study ethic which helped at BOLC”…

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