Photo By Master Sgt. Jenifer Calhoun | Tech. Sgt. Cynthia Fejaran, services craftsman with the 380th Expeditionary Force...... read more read more
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SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Tech. Sgt. Cynthia B. Fejaran is a services craftsman assigned to the 380th Expeditionary Force Support Squadron at a non-disclosed base in Southwest Asia.
Fejaran is an Air National Guard Airman deployed from the 254th Force Support Squadron at Andersen Air Base Guam. Her hometown is Piti, Guam. As a services craftsman with the 380th EFSS, Fejaran supports the morale, welfare, fitness and recreation of more than 1,900 deployed service members for the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing.
In the 380th EFSS, services support programs range a myriad of areas and Fejaran has to be ready to support any one of them. According to her official Air Force job description, services Airmen like Fejaran manage and direct services programs, operations and retail operations. They supervise and work in appropriated fund food service and lodging activities, recreation, fitness and sports programs, linen exchange operations, mortuary affairs programs, honor guard teams, and services readiness programs.
In managing services operations, Airmen like Fejaran help improve work methods and procedures to ensure economic operation and customer satisfaction. They also resolve complaints, apply accounting principles to control resources, determine appropriated and non-appropriated fund budget requirements, and requisitions and accounts for subsistence, supplies and equipment needed to support services programs - to name a few.
Furthermore, services Airmen like Fejaran also identify facility requirements and conduct surveys to determine facility renovation, construction and modernization needs, the job description states. They also establish and supervise bare-base facilities that provide food, fitness, lodging, sports management, recreation, laundry, mortuary services and field exchange operations to deployed personnel.
In performing their deployed duties, the job description shows services Airmen like Fejaran operate fixed, bare base and portable food facilities and equipment. They plans, prepare and adjust menus and they determine resource availability, pricing and merchandise trends as well as carrying the ability to trains unit fitness monitors to conduct unit fitness evaluations.
In all the services functions, Fejaran has to maintain mandatory job knowledge in areas such as accounting procedures, management principles, merchandising, marketing, automated information systems, food service facility operations, subsistence management, requisition and issue procedures, menu planning and lodging operations, the job description states.
The 380th EFSS is a sub-unit of the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing. The wing is home to the KC-10 Extender, U-2 Dragon Lady, E-3 Sentry and RQ-4 Global Hawk aircraft. The wing is comprised of four groups and 12 squadrons and the wing's deployed mission includes air refueling, surveillance and reconnaissance in support of overseas contingency operations in Southwest Asia. The 380th AEW supports operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom and the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa.
| Date Taken: | 04.16.2010 |
| Date Posted: | 04.16.2010 03:20 |
| Story ID: | 48204 |
| Location: | (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION) |
| Web Views: | 353 |
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