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Warrior of the Week: Staff Sgt. Thanh Nguyen

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  • By Senior Airman Neil Warner
  • 20th Fighter Wing Public Affairs
SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. --  Editor's note: The Warrior of the Week Program is a program designed to honor Shaw's service members who exemplify the Core Values.

This week's Warrior of the week is Staff Sgt. Thanh Nguyen, 372nd Training Squadron Detachment 202 F-16 armament systems instructor and scheduler, from Lincoln, Neb.

"Nguyen is the heartbeat of this detachment," said Senior Master Sgt. Stephen Wallace, 372nd Training Squadron Detachment 202 chief. "He handles all the class scheduling for training which makes our mission possible."

Nguyen's additional duties include information technology manager, course and equipment schedules and production reporting.

In his scheduling and production duties, he regularly coordinates with the 20th Maintenance Group command chief, wing weapons manager, and the military training flight.

Over the course of a year he schedules approximately 500 students in 9 different career fields, Wallace said.

He is scheduled to be the first to facilitate an unprecedented "deployment" of an avionics instructor to an Area of Operations to support air maintenance squadron training requirements, Wallace said.

Family: Two younger brothers

Music: "I listen to all kinds, Classical, Rock, Rap and Alternative."

Movie: The Hangover

Hobbies: Maintaining and target practicing with firearms

Sports Team: The Dallas Cowboys

Guilty Pleasure: "I understand team work with the Air Force, but mine is to work alone and accomplish tasks by my own merit."

Goal: "I'll be sewing on technical sergeant next month and I want to make master sergeant by my 15th year."

Biggest Accomplishment: Starting a family and learning how to balance career with lifestyle

Heroes: Retired "Chief Master Sgt. (ret.) Don Demart and Master Sgt. (ret.) Duncan Gorell. I worked with them from day one, and being weapons troops they helped me fulfill the leadership roles I would assume and grasp the large picture of how actions no matter how small affect the mission."

Favorite Food: Italian and Greek food

If you were stuck on a desert island what three things would you have? My fiancé, firearms and laptop with Netflix.