070206 Tuesday Prayer Breakfast - Colonel Robert Hamrick

Georgette Sadler has recruited another representative of our armed forces leadership to give a review of his service to our country.

Although there is virtually no reference made to the Bible or to Christian principles there is a strong sense of purpose and duty, which with we can identify.

Colonel Robert A. Hamrick is the Executive Support Staff Officer (ESSO) for the Alabama Air Nation al Guard and serves on the Adjutant General's Staff as Alabama's senior, full-time Air National Guard Officer. He acts as the Adjutant General's liaison and representative on Air National Guard issues within and outside Alabama, and is responsible for coordinating personnel, equipment, and resource issues impacting for Alabama Air National guard, and organization of more than 2400 personnel assigned within two flying wings (KC-135's and F-16's), a combat communications group with three combat communications squadrons, and one intelligence squadron.

Colonel Hamrick enlisted in the Alabama Air National Guard in 1972, attended basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, and completed technical training at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi, in May 1973. After completing train, he returned to the 117th Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance Squadron in Birmingham where he served as an Inertial and Radar Navigation System s Repairman. In 1981, he was commissioned as a First Lieutenant and assigned as Avionics Officer. Over the next 25 years, he held a variety of staff and command assignments within the aircraft maintenance complex, ultimately rising to Maintenance Group Commander in September 2000, a position he held until his assignment as the ESSO in August 2006.