Vance ATC watch supervisor named best in Air Force Published July 2, 2013 By Joe B. Wiles 71st Flying Training Wing Public Affairs VANCE AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. -- Tech. Sgt. Laquetta Spann is the Air Force Air Traffic Control watch supervisor of the year, an honor she owes one part to her older brother, one part to Master Sgt. Tracy Breitenkamp and one part to the fact she "just did my job." From Montgomery, Ala., Spann decided to join the Air Force in 2003. "My brother is in the Navy," she said. When he found out she was going into the Air Force, he recommended a career field that would pay well when she left active duty - air traffic control. "He always gives good advice," Spann said. She currently works at the Radar Approach Control with the 71st Operations Support Squadron, but Spann earned the Air Force award for her work as the air traffic control tower watch supervisor. "Nobody receives this kind of recognition on their own," she said. "The airmen and NCOs in the tower were a big reason I earned this award," said Spann. "I give a lot of credit to the person who supervised me, trusted me and had faith in me -- Master Sgt. Tracy Breitenkamp." Spann found out she had received the Air Force award last Wednesday. Her flight commander, Capt. LeRoy Jackson, came by to tell her about an email he received saying she had won the Air Education and Training Command level watch supervisor of the year award. Since Spann had received the AETC award in April, they decided to recheck the email. And that was when she discovered it was actually the Air Force level award. Spann has been assigned to Vance for two years now, and is expecting to PCS next year to Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, where she will rejoin her husband, Tech. Sgt. Brian Spann, also an air traffic controller.