Recognizing Chief Master Sergeant John T. Bey's Retirement Following His Years of Service to the Commonwealth and the United States of America

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Mr. PERRY. Madam Speaker, I'm honored to congratulate Chief Master Sergeant John T. Bey on his years of service to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the United States of America.

Chief Bey first enlisted in the Air Force Reserve in January 1986. He attended technical school at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, and then was assigned as an electrical linesman at the 911th Air Wing (AW), Air Reserve Station Pittsburgh, where he served for nineteen years. Chief Bey also cross trained into the Fiscal Management (FM) career field in 2004, wherein he ascended the ranks at the 911th AW to Chief Master Sergeant. Chief Bey Joined the Pennsylvania Air National Guard in February 2016, and was selected as the Special Operations Mission Support Group Chief, 193rd Special Operations Wing (SOW), Middletown, Pennsylvania. He served for just over one year before being selected as the Superintendent of the 193rd Special Operations Comptroller Flight.

Chief Bey is responsible for overseeing and managing the peacetime training and wartime deployment of a fifteen-person FM team. Additionally, his team is responsible for the FM capabilities serving over 1800 traditional Guard Members, 400 dual-status Technicians and 150 AGR personnel during the 193rd SOW's regularly scheduled drills and daily operations. The FM team also oversees all financial management deployment briefings and newcomer orientation briefings and accessions.

In addition to Chief Bey's service in the Air Force, he's also served in the Pennsylvania State Police, where he first enlisted on June 5, 1989. He was appointed to the Special Emergency Response Team as a Crisis Negotiator in 1995 until 2003, when he was promoted to Lieutenant and served as Patrol Section Commander and Criminal Investigation Section Commander for Troop G, Hollidaysburg. He was promoted to Captain in 2008, and served as of Administration and Director Training in the Bureau of Education and Training until 2014. Chief Bey retired from the Pennsylvania State Police on October 13, 2014, at which time he served as Chief of Police for the Middletown Borough Police Department until 2016.

With great honor, I commend Chief Master Sergeant John T. Bey for his distinguished career of service to our great Commonwealth and Nation. His selfless service, dedication to duty, and tireless efforts to serving and protecting our Citizens on myriad levels is a great credit to himself, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the United States of America.

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