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Arp receives Air Force leadership award

By Lexi MooreJamie Arp, who grew up attending Hills-Beaver Creek schools while living in Hills, was awarded the Air Force’s Levitow Honor Graduate Award on Sept. 29 at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho.This award is presented to the top professional military education graduate from Air Force Airman Leadership Schools for outstanding leadership and scholastic achievement.The Levitow Honor Award was created to honor Sergeant John L. Levitow, an AC-47 gunship loadmaster who became the lowest ranking Airman ever to receive the Medal of Honor for exceptional heroism during wartime.Arp joined the Air Force in 2001 and has been stationed at the Air Force base in Mountain Home since 2001. She spent three months in Iraq during the summer of 2004.Her parents, Ron and Betty Arp, live outside of Steen and were unable to attend the ceremony.Jamie will be stationed in Korea for the next year.

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