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2015 Regular Session
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 67
BY SENATOR BROOME
COMMENDATIONS. Commends United States Air Force Technical Sergeant Ashley L.
Tyler for volunteering over 800 hours to help improve the quality of life for all stateside
personnel and enhance British-American relations.
1 A RESOLUTION
2 To commend United States Air Force Technical Sergeant Ashley L. Tyler for volunteering
3 over eight hundred hours of personal time to help improve the quality of life for all
4 stateside personnel and enhance British-American relations.
5 WHEREAS, between March 1, 2011, and January 1, 2015, Technical Sergeant
6 Ashley L. Tyler volunteered over eight hundred hours of her personal time in numerous
7 activities; and
8 WHEREAS, her base community volunteerism included:
9 (1) Two hundred hours to 100 SFS Knights in Blue Booster Club in which she
10 oversaw security and participated in the Mayfair Bazaar and Yuletide Bazaar, Police Week
11 and Squadron Christmas Party and organized or led Marauder Melee, Defender Challenge,
12 and 100 SFS/48 SFS Basket Ball Challenge; efforts which helped raise ten thousand dollars;
13 (2) Sixty hours to Air Force Sergeants' Association supporting local Air Force
14 Sergeants' Association (AFSA) chapter by assisting with four fundraising events and
15 member recruitment and assisting in set up and tear down for Special Needs Christmas
16 Party, RAF Mildenhall Half Marathon and Joan Mann Sports Day; efforts which raised one
17 thousand dollars;
18 (3) Twenty hours to Stars of Great Britain #45 assisting in cooking dishes for "Hearts
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1 Apart" Dinner for deployed spouses, facilitating Day of the Military Child "Baked Goods"
2 fund raiser and leading Marauder Melee "Funnel Cake" fund raiser; helping the club raise
3 one thousand dollars;
4 (4) Three hours instructing class at Professional Development Center (PDC)
5 teaching AFSO 21 to First Term Airman at PDC;
6 (5) Ten hours to RAF Mildenhall USO Events assisting in set up and tear down for
7 various concerts;
8 (6) Fifteen hours as Black History Month Committee Member assisting in cooking
9 dishes for "Taste of Culture" event;
10 (7) Twenty-five hours to RAF Mildenhall Youth Center as youth soccer coach for
11 ages 5/6 and teaching teamwork and followership skills to AF members children;
12 (8) Fifteen hours to Breast Cancer Awareness Month leading two Powder Puff
13 football games improving awareness of disease;
14 (9) Forty hours to the North Side Fitness Center instructing Combat Fitness Class
15 and Helping individuals improve physical fitness; and
16 WHEREAS, her volunteerism also involved British, Deployment, and Home State
17 activities including:
18 (1) Seventy-five hours involving operations at the Sather Air Base USO Center and
19 9/11 Memorial events;
20 (2) Twenty hours for the Madingley Ceremony including Formation Reef
21 Bearer/2012 and Co-Led security detail/2013 during the Cambridge American Cemetery
22 Memorial Day Ceremony honoring fallen war heroes;
23 (3) Fifteen hours to Beck Row Primary School leading Show and Tell and two
24 Defender Challenge Events and building host nation relations;
25 (4) Two hundred hours to the Kiwanis Club supporting local community by
26 collecting, packaging and delivering school supplies to the elementary/middle schools and
27 briefing Air Force Heritage/Culture to at-risk teenagers at local churches and schools in
28 Baton Rouge;
29 (5) One hundred ninety hours to the Take it to the Streets Ministry procuring over
30 one thousand dollars from local businesses to help feed and provide clothing for local San
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1 Antonio homeless residents, distributing food to over two hundred people, and bolstering the
2 outreach program;
3 (6) Ten hours contributed to the San Antonio local Food Bank downloading, sorting,
4 and packaging over 10K lbs of produce providing 138 families with basic needs; and
5 WHEREAS, TSgt. Tyler performed outstanding volunteer service to the base and
6 local community for a sustained, direct, and consequential nature.
7 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
8 does hereby commend United States Air Force Technical Sergeant Ashley L. Tyler for
9 volunteering over eight hundred hours to help improve the quality of life for all stateside
10 personnel and enhance British-American relations.
11 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to TSgt
12 Ashley L. Tyler.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Jerry J. Guillot.
DIGEST
SR 67 Original 2015 Regular Session Broome
Commends USAF Technical Sergeant Ashley L. Tyler for volunteering over 800 hours to
help improve the quality of life for all stateside personnel and enhance British-American
relations.
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