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Airforce Sgt. deployed overseas Air Force Staff Sgt. Kim N. Howard has deployed overseas to a forward operating base 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. Howard, a client support administrator with eight years of military service, is normally assigned to the 509th Security Forces Squadron, Whiteman Air Force Base, Knob Noster, Missouri. She is the daughter of Randolph Alleyne of Rosedale, N.Y. and Shelia Alleyne of Deer Park. Her husband, Kelsey, is the son of Sandra and Wallace Green of Virginia Beach, Va.
The sergeant graduated in 1999 from Deer Park High School, and received an associate degree in 2007 from the Community College of the Air Force, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.
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