Key Spouses celebrate program reinvigoration anniversary

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  • By Meredith March
  • 66th Air Base Wing Public Affairs
HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. --  Hanscom leaders recently marked the one-year anniversary of the base's reinvigorated Key Spouse Program. To celebrate, the Electronic Systems Center Key Spouse Team and Marcia Bowlds, wife of ESC Commander Lt. Gen. Ted Bowlds, sponsored a recognition ceremony, held at the Minuteman Club March 10.

Jacki Hoffman, wife of Air Force Materiel Command Commander Gen. Donald J. Hoffman, attended the ceremony honoring Hanscom's Key Spouses for the service and support they have offered deployed servicemembers and their families. Col. Dave 'Iron' Orr, 66th Air Base Wing commander, and Becky Feehan, wife of ESC Vice Commander Brig. Gen. Terry Feehan, presented the Key Spouses with key-shaped pins and expressed their gratitude to the program's participants.

"I'm so thrilled with the Key Spouse Program," said Colonel Orr. "You don't realize what kind of far-reaching difference you make in the Key Spouse Program. Taking care of those families who are sacrificing allows members to continue to serve in the vocation of preserving our nation's freedom because they know their families' needs are genuinely supported.

"From our youngest Airmen to lieutenant colonels, senior master sergeants, chiefs and colonels -- we do very diverse deployments from Hanscom, so it really takes this Key Spouse organization to make it all work for us. I thank you for that and I really appreciate it," he said.

Mrs. Hoffman said she appreciated Key Spouses for "being the heroes of the Air Force and of AFMC," and for being selfless.

"You don't know how you're changing the course of other people's history. So, thank you," she said. "I know [General Hoffman] appreciates the spouses very much, because he knows that we can make it or break it -- not a career, but a family life -- and not just ours, but the family lives of others. I really do get goose bumps when I think about all that you do."