Each year the United States Air Force (USAF) recognizes 12 enlisted personnel for their superior leadership, job performance and personal achievements. This summer Alabama native Mason Meherg, former youth pastor at Harmony Grove Baptist Church, Winfield, was honored as Outstanding Airman of the Year.
For Meherg, an E-4 senior airman, it was a humbling experience. “To be surrounded by great, hard-working peers and leadership that will take the time to nominate me for such an honor is overwhelming.”
Meherg joined the USAF in 2012 after graduating from Winfield City High School in 2010. He earned an associate’s degree from the Community College of the Air Force and is working toward a bachelor’s degree through Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. He is stationed at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri.
In addition to being named Outstanding Airman of the Year for the entire USAF, Meherg also has been named an outstanding airman for several divisions in 2014, including the 509th Bomb Wing, the 509th Comptroller Squadron and the Air Force Strike Command. He and his wife, Hope, have two children. Meherg is the son of Tim Meherg, pastor of First Baptist Church, Reform.
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