May 6, 2005 (Army & Air Force Hometown News) – Air Force Senior Airman Monique George is currently deployed to Southwest Asia in the Persian Gulf region to support the mission of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The soldier is a member of the 325th Fighter Wing, Tyndall Air Force Base, Panama City, Fla.
Operation Iraqi Freedom is the official name given to military operations involving members of the U.S. armed forces and coalition forces participating in efforts to free and secure Iraq. Mission objectives focus on force protection, peacekeeping, stabilization, security, and counter-insurgency operations as the Iraqi transitional governing bodies assume full sovereign powers to govern the peoples of Iraq.
Members from all branches of the U.S. military and multinational forces are also assisting in rebuilding Iraq's economic and governmental infrastructure, and training and preparing Iraqi military and security forces to assume full authority and responsibility in defending and preserving Iraq's sovereignty and independence as a democracy.
George, a senior emergency actions controller, is the daughter of Theodora Creque-Smith of Bournefield, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
She is a 2001 graduate of Charlotte Amalie High School, St. Thomas.