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Military Career Technical Sergeant Robert L Allen is an RF Transmission Technician for the 116th Air Control Squadron, Rilea Armed Forces Training Center , Warrenton , Oregon . As an RF Transmission Technician, TSGT Allen is head of the Operations Module team and is directly involved in the training of junior team members. He has been involved in several deployments with the 116th to include the Operation Noble Eagle deployments of 2001 through 2005 and has contributed to a near 100 % success rate.

He was deployed in 2006 in support of Operation Jumpstart where he wrote the training program, protocol, inventory control system and troubleshooting guide for the commercial off the shelf MSAT satellite radio system used throughout Arizona. He also provided hands on training for hundreds of Army and Air force personnel deployed throughout the state. He later returned to Tucson sector on the repeater team (Task Force Diamondback) where he helped to change over the analog VHF system used by the border patrol and National Guard over to an all digital system.

TSGT Allen grew up in the greater Salem Oregon area. He graduated from Central High School in Independence Oregon in 1984. He enlisted in the Alaska Air National Guard in 1994 as a Communications / Navigations Equipment Specialist, assigned to the 210th Search and Rescue out of Anchorage . The many humanitarian missions of the 210th garnered him the humanitarian service medal. In 1996 TSgt Allen joined the Oregon Air National Guard. He attended the Vehicle Body Mechanic technical school where he received high honors. After cross-training in 2000 to the position of Ground Radio Technician (Later re-designated "RF Transmission Systems" he again received high honors in the difficult Ground Radio technical school. He was activated for Operation Noble Eagle in September of 2001 and provided critical communication links that supported surveillance operations for the Puget Sound Region, Washington State , FAA gap filler radar, and protection of the Vice President of the United States through September 2005. In 2011 TSgt Allen deployed to Southwest Asia with the 379th Expeditionary Operations Group as an Radio Frequency Communications Team Lead.

Professional Career Robert L. Allen is the Oregon National Guard State Communication and Information Technology Specialist. Working out of the Oregon Joint Operations Center in support of Domestic Emergency Operations and support of FEMA Emergency Support Function (ESF) two; Communications. He provides technology support for Army and Air National Guard as well as State Emergency Operations Support. He has published the Army MSAT communications technical publication. He has authored the Oregon Interactive website which is utilized for mapping, continuity of operations, logistics, forms, real-time traffic visibility, and other common operating picture needs. He is also in charge of Sharepoint for the Oregon Joint Operation Center as well as the Oregon operational presence on the Homeland Security Information Network Sharepoint site.

Awards/Decorations Air Force Commendation Medal Meritorious Unit Award AF Outstanding Unit Award (1 Device) Air Reserve Forces Meritorious Service Medal (5 Devices) National Defense Service Medal (1 Device) Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal Global War on Terrorism Service Medal Armed Forces Service Medal Air Force Expeditionary Service Ribbon with Gold Border AF Longevity Service (3 Devices) Armed Forces Reserve Medal with 1 "M" Device (1 Device) AF Training Ribbon Army Achievement Medal Oregon National Guard Superior Unit Citation Oregon Superior Unit Ribbon Oregon Faithful Service Medal (‘M’ Device) Oregon Faithful Service Medal (1 Device) Alaska Humanitarian Service Medal Alaska Domestic Emergency Ribbon

Other Information ASSIGNMENTS: May 1994 – July 1996, 210th Search & Rescue Communications / Navigation's Team Member July 1996 – May 2000, 116th ACS Vehicle Maintenance Team Member Jan 2011 - Aug 2011, 379th Expeditionary Operations Group RF Communications Team lead May 2000 – Present, 116th ACS RF Communications OM Team chief

EDUCATION: 2008: BS Information Technology with a minor in studio art, Western Oregon University 2000: Ground radio electronics, Keesler AFB 1998: Auto body Mechanics, Aberdeen PG 1994: Communications electronics, Keesler AFB 1987: Computer Science, Chemeketa Community College

Artist I am a semi-professional digital photographer who has taken several thousand photographs. I have worked in a real darkroom with film as well as a virtual photo studio processing digital photos. Fine Art photographs are just that. They have been manipulated either in the darkroom or digitally to show what the photo-artist wants you to see. To make you see his or her vision of a place, event, or object; the photographer will manipulate or move objects and create lighting to better show the subject. I feel a desire to thrust some of my photography deep into the realm of fine art and enjoy every minute of the creation process. It is much like creating a masterpiece as if I were a painter with brush and a canvas. Snapshots are documentary photographs taken of people or scenery to remember the moment. Besides traditional mediums I am a web-artist, creating beauty in form as well as function. I have created many websites or neo-kinetic functional art over the last few years and believe that there should be greater demand for eye appeal on the web. Why does function preclude artistic expression?