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mm mm hmm . 

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Maintaining a unit's 

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history and heritage is an important 

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job here at the expeditionary Center . 

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Mr Tom Lauria has the responsibility to 

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curate and display different items 

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which highlight not only Air Force 

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history but air mobility operations as 

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well . One of those displays he 

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considers as the crown jewel of the 

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collection are artifacts belonging to 

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Grace Peterson . The expeditionary 

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center's most prized historical 

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possession , I would say would be the 

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Grace Peterson display Grace Peterson . 

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She was she's very important person in 

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Air Force history . She was the very 

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first female Chief Master Sergeant , 

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Air Force . She was stationed here at 

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McGuire in the fifties and we're lucky 

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to have her uniform . Not even the 

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National Museum of the Air Force has a 

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complete display of Grace Peterson's 

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uniform . Only We do . I'm Staff 

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sergeant jake carter . And this has 

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been your expeditionary center minute 

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building air power from the ground up .