Fairfield senior airman honored at city council
At the Fairfield City Council meeting on Monday, Sept. 28, Mayor Ron D’Epifanio honored Senior Airman Matthew Doxsey. Tuesday, Sept. 29 was proclaimed as Senior Airman Matthew Doxsey Day.
Doxsey is a surveillance technician for the 123rd Air Control Squadron with the Blue Ash Air National Guard Base. Doxsey’s best friend was the late Marine Lance Cpl. Taylor Prazynski, a Fairfield graduate who died in combat in Iraq in May 2005.
Doxsey joined the Air Force on Nov. 1, 2008. On Dec. 28, 2008 he was deployed to Balad Air Force Base in Iraq. He was stationed in Iraq for five months.
During his deployment, he worked at the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group Joint Base Hospital in Iraq, working 100 hours in addition to working his assigned duties as a surveillance technician.
The Fairfield native and Ohio State University student has been honored as the 727th Kingpin Airman of the Week and Airman of the Month, the 332nd Expeditionary Operations Group Tuskegee Airman of the Week.
— Michael D. Pitman
FAIRFIELD — Marine Sgt. Corbett Hambrick is set to leave Saturday, Oct. 3, for Camp Lejeune, N.C., to prepare to be shipped to Afghanistan. It will be his third deployment since February 2007.
On Friday, Oct. 2, Mayor Ron D’Epifanio honored the 2003 Fairfield graduate for his military service. The mayor proclaimed Saturday as Sgt. Corbett W. Hambrick Day in Fairfield.
“It’s a big honor,” said Hambrick, 25.
Hambrick enlisted in October 2005 and serves with the 26th Marine Expedition Unit as a scout sniper.
He first was deployed in February 2007 for missions with naval forces. In March 2008, he was deployed to Al Quim Province, Iraq, for counter insurgency operations. Each of his previous two tours were seven months.
“You hope that at the end of the day, it made somewhat of a difference,” Hambrick said.
The past four years, Hambrick has earned three Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals, two Sea Service Deployment awards and various other honors.
Military service is in his family. Hambrick’s grandfather, Nelson Hambrick Sr., served in World War II and the Korean War.
Hambrick will prepare for his deployment for two weeks. Sometime in his third week of training he will be deployed to Afghanistan. He said he will be given three days notice before departing.
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