Oregon guardsman is top graduate at NCO Academy
McGHEE TYSON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Tenn. -- Tech. Sgt. Rebekah L. Birt, right, a personnelist with the 125th Special Tactics Squadron, Oregon Air National Guard, receives the John L. Levitow Honor Award for NCO Academy Class 10-1 from Lt. Col. Stan Giles, left, at The I.G. Brown Air National Guard Training and Education Center here, Nov. 19, 2009. The John L. Levitow Award is the highest honor awarded a graduate of any Air Force enlisted professional military education course. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Kurt Skoglund/Released)