YN1 earns NASM memorial CoY

Yeoman 1st Class Jennifer Purcell was selected for the AC2 Whitney Powell Memorial Military Citizen of the Year (CoY) award at Naval Air Station, Meridian, Miss. The award is given to an enlisted member at NASM annually for volunteer service within the community. Purcell volunteers at Till Newell’s Animal Hospital, Coyote Equine Hills Rescue, and Habitat for Humanity. “For this community to be successful and for (NASM) to be successful, we have to rely on each other,” said base commander Capt. Brian Horstman. It has given YN1 Purcell a sense of being a part of something bigger than herself. The award is named for Air Traffic Controller 2nd Class Whitney Powell who died in a car accident in 2013. She was active in the Meridian community such as Lauderdale County Emergency Management Agency and Wesley House Women’s Shelter, and Calvary Chapel. (Source: WGBC-TV 02/28/19)