AF announces newest SMSgt selectees Published March 11, 2011 By 18th Wing Public Affairs 18th Wing Public Affairs KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- Air Force officials announced their selection of 1,274 of 12,378 eligible master sergeants for promotion to senior master sergeant March 10. Those selected for senior master sergeant will be promoted according to their promotion sequence number beginning in April. Congratulations to Team Kadena members selected for promotion to senior master sergeant: 18th Wing David Pizzuto Thaddeus Brannon 18th Security Forces Squadron Clayton Watson 18th Force Support Squadron Michele Allen Alexander Bambao Joseph Mouton III 18th Civil Engineer Group John Beebe III 18th Operations Group Jessika Clarke Marc Hurst 18th Logistic Readiness Squadron Rachel Colbus Derek Olivieri 18th Comptroller Squadron Stacy Fields 376th Training Squadron Ryan Fondulis 18th Equipment Maintenance Squadron John Hodel Lee Samelak 718th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Timothy Johnson 18th Component Maintenance Squadron Bryan Jordan Alfred Stanley 353rd Operations Group Thomas Barefoot Derek Love Kirk Ritter 18th Maintenance Squadron Stephen Middleton 18th Communications Squadron Bernard Obsuna 1st Special Operations Squadron Christophe Pippens 18th Operations Support Squadron Teresa Schorer 554th Red Horse Squadron Naim Vaughan