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Employee of the Quarter - Q2, 2023
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Zachary Murphy

  • Electronics Technician
  • Gulfport, MS
  • Zachary Murphy planned an integral role in the success of Southern Strike 23 held at the ANG CRTC Gulfport MS.
    • Last minute additions: Just prior to the start of the Exercise, three additional feeds were requested to buildings 65 and 151. Making this difficult were the fact that feeds had never been to those buildings. and local infrastructure was lacking. Zach led the charge to make this happen utilizing his knowledge of the local infrastructure from his military experience in the Comm section. The three feeds to both buildings were connected and operational within one day.
    • Pod MX: Troubleshoot and repaired three (3) pods, restoring them to service resulting in minimal downtime and causing zero effects on sortie missions.
  • In addition to his normal duties, Zachary Murphy took on the primary role of training 3 new individuals during the May timeframe: one for the 149 FW San Antonio and two assigned to the ANG CRTC Gulfport MS. He traveled to 149 FW San Antonio TX to perform the 2nd phase of training on War Room operations and missions for 149 FW San Antonio technician – Abiel Trevino.
    • Pod MX: While in San Antonio, troubleshot and repaired two (2) downed pods giving critical on-site training and restoring to 100% FMC rate.
    • Grd Systems MX: Assisted / trained on performing Grd Sys updates and TCTO for the PGS.
  • Zachary Murphy traveled to 162 FW Tucson AZ to perform required on-site maintenance to the Microwave feed from Mt Lemmon to Tucson proper 12 – 16 Jun 2023. Seizing on the opportunity to capture important training, he suggested traveling with one of the new trainees (Hannah Mejia), This action was crucial in providing specific on-site, hands-on training that may not have otherwise been available. After discovering a bad port on one of the switches at the mountain site, they were able to move to a spare and reconfigure switch – restoring full operations.
    • Grd Systems MX: Assisted / trained on performing Grd Sys updates to all systems and performed TCTO for the PGS assigned.
  • Zachary Murphy has quickly worked to fill the void after losing two key individuals in the Grd Systems side of the house. His extensive computer / network knowledge and budding experience in the ACTS field is not only invaluable to the CRTC GPT, but to the ANG, the SPO and ACC.
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