Aviation resource manager named Vance AOM

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  • By Senior Airman Frank Casciotta
  • 71st Flying Training Wing Public Affairs
VANCE AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. --  A 3rd Flying Training Squadron aviation resource manager is the 71st Flying Training Wing Airman of the Month for December.

Airman 1st Class Lizzette Kriner was selected by group superintendents based on her work performance and merit as an Airman.

It was a quiet day at the flight desk in Building 541 when Kriner sprang to attention for Col. Clark Quinn, the 71st Flying Training Wing commander; Chief Master Sgt. Peter Speen, the 71st FTW command chief, and other senior leaders from her chain of command who gathered around her Nov. 24 to make the announcement.

"I was so confused and a little overwhelmed because it was so empty and all of a sudden the wing commander walks in," said Kriner. "I had no idea (that) I had even been submitted for the award."

Senior Airman Devin Courtney, her supervisor, wrote her award package while Kriner was on leave.

"She's always getting her work done early and getting it done right," said Courtney. "Plus she's always getting involved with community improvement. Recently, she helped renovate a church in town."

As an aviation resource manager, it is Kriner's job to make sure pilots have all their ducks in a row before she assigns them to an aircraft.

"I have to make sure student pilots and their instructors have their physicals up to date, that they are current on all ground and flying training before I can give them access to their aircraft," said Kriner, a Bakersfield, California, native.

As the Airman of the Month, Kriner will shadow Chief Master Sgt. Bruce McPherson, the 71st Security Forces superintendent.

Her shadow day will start with morning physical training with McPherson and will end with a pilot graduation banquet.

"I'm excited because I've never been to a graduation before," said Kriner. "I work with these students every day, and I want to see the event they spend a year of training looking forward to. The only thing I'm not excited about is changing my uniform five times that day."

Kriner is currently pursuing her Community College of the Air Force degree and hopes to hold a bachelor's degree in psychology someday.