Wing slogan voting spans to March 21

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  • By Airman 1st Class Nora Anton
  • 354th Fighter Wing Public Affairs
EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska --  The Wing Slogan Contest runs through March 21, in which time, every person on base with a valid eielson.af.mil e-mail address will receive a voting ballot to vote on their favorite slogan.

Brig. Gen. Mark Graper, 354th Fighter Wing commander, will pick the new slogan from the top three selected by voters, announcing the winner at his Spring Commander's Call in early April.

The winner will receive a choice of either a three-day no-work pass, dinner for two at Pike's Landing, or 100 Force Support Bucks, usable at any force support facility on base. The next two top-voted entries will each receive 50 FSB.

The top ten slogans selected by committee are:

Icemen Train, Icemen Reign - Staff Sgt. Rutherford Alejo

Eielson, Where the Best Come to Get Better - Robert Redington

Freezing Ours to Protect Yours - Special Agent Amy Modlin

Ready to Go at 50 Below - Tech. Sgt. Bradley Kuehn

Northern Trained, Global Ready - Tech. Sgt. Scott Hanks

Titans of the Tundra - Capt. Meridith Peele

Train Cold, Fight Bold - Maj. Elizabeth Yogerst

Arctic Cool, Icemen Rule - Denise Ringhand

Living the Dream on the Icemen Team - Chief Master Sgt. Dean Sprague

Arctic Guardians, Defenders of the North - Steve Huskey


"The contest so far has been a great success," said Lt. Col. Walter Thomas, 354th Fighter Wing director of staff. "Many of the slogans were original thoughts; others were variations on some commonly known catch phrases."

He said the committee designated to weed through the submitted slogans received 173 ideas from more than 100 participants.

The new slogan is a necessary byproduct of the 354th Fighter Wing's new diversified mission of "Train, Deploy, Enable".

How we "go to war" has changed significantly over the past year and a half, with the departure of the A-10s and the transformation of the 18th Fighter Squadron into the 18th Aggressor Squadron. The men and women of the wing continue to deploy to places like Iraq and Afghanistan and fight our nation's wars, but our wing is also now very focused on providing top-tier training through our Red Flag - Alaska exercises. We also enable other forces to perform their missions out of Eielson, such as a Tanker Task Force and Ft. Wainwright Army units.

"Valor in Combat" will remain on our Wing patch for heraldic purposes.