Ribbon formation sends message of support Published April 7, 2014 By Tara Dixon Engel Skywrighter Staff WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE -- April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and to draw attention to Air Force-wide efforts to prevent sexual assault, a group of nonprior service students from the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine formed a symbolic human ribbon March 27 in the parking lot outside Bldg. 1243 in Kittyhawk Center. The human ribbon campaign was coordinated by 2nd Lt. Eugenio Matta, a bioenvironmental engineer with the 88 Aerospace Medicine Squadron. Matta, whose wife, Tatiana, is a Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Key Spouse and is working with installation spouses to create campaign awareness, noted that the purpose of the ribbon and other projects related to Sexual Assault Awareness Month is to "send a message that we support this cause and that it is important to the entire Air Force to be aware and involved because sexual assault is something that just won't be tolerated." Also in attendance to observe the ribbon formation was 1st Lt. Candace Washington, a certified victim advocate and program assistant with the Air Force Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Program. "The SARC (Sexual Assault Response Coordinator) Office is really honored that the students took the initiative to participate in this project. It shows that they truly care about their Air Force and their wingmen," Washington said. "It's also great that their leaders encouraged them to take part in activities such as this."