Medical group claims AETC recognition Published Nov. 28, 2006 By Staff Sgt. Amanda Mills Public Affairs Vance Air Force Base, Okla. -- The 71st Medical Group recently received two Air Education and Training Command awards. The medical resource management flight received the Outstanding Resource Management team award, and Tech. Sgt. Nancy Chatigny received the Chief Master Sergeant Lewis W. Dunlap NCO Award. Capt. Jacqueline Dent and Senior Airman Bradley Campbell led the resource management flight. "The key words here were 'working together,'" Captain Dent said. "There are five members of our team, and we all back each other up. Everyone has his or her own job, but no one is afraid to learn the others' to assist when it's needed. This team does not embrace the 'it's not my job' theory. This was a team effort and we all agree that a Team Award is preferable to one or two individual awards." "This is the biggest award I've ever been a part of," Airman Campbell said. "It's a great honor and a good morale booster to help earn it." According to the nomination, the team developed a medical group TRICARE Website, providing beneficiaries better access to information. The site received the 2004 Best of TRICARE on the Web award. The team also maintained expert funds accountability and had zero discrepancies noted when they underwent an audit of the entire program by an AETC contractor. The Chief Master Sergeant Lewis W. Dunlap Award recognizes outstanding performance of duty and achievements of Mental Health Service Airmen and NCOs who have been involved in training, supervising, managing or providing direct patient care during the nomination period. "I am truly honored to receive this award," Sergeant Chatigny said. "However, I couldn't have done it without the support of my supervisor, flight commander and co-workers. I thank them and feel they earned it right along with me." According to her nomination, Sergeant Chatigny anchored the medical group's most diverse flight, guiding 14 personnel and cinching 100-percent training completion across five career fields. She is the only certified drug counselor to more than 1,500 troops, delivering $8,000 in services with 100 percent success. Sergeant Chatigny is also a dynamic Red Ribbon Week supporter, offering alcohol and drug awareness and deterrence messages to local teens. Staff Sgt. Sara Rose also received the Olson/Wegner Aerospace Medicine NCO award. Sergeant Rose is now stationed at Beale AFB, Calif.