Bellbrook students send wounded warrior greetings
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/ Published January 07, 2010
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Senior Airman Tre Porfirio (center), Airman First Class Ahja Nock, and Lt.
Col. Rick Johns, hold a banner of get well wishes from Bellbrook (Ohio)
Middle School students Dec. 29, 2009 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Porfirio is recovering after a groundbreaking Thanksgiving Day surgery when doctors
removed his damaged pancreas, harvested islet cells and transplanted them
into his liver. A communications technician with the 88th Communications Squadron, Senior Airman Porfirio was shot in the back by an insurgent while
deployed with an Army unit to Afghanistan. Nock is a mental health technician with the 88th Medical Operations Squadron and Johns is commander of the 88th
Communications Squadron. All three Airmen are assigned to Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base, Ohio. (courtesy photo)