Reservist takes over in Kirkuk — from son

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Senior Airman Derrick Johnson teaches his mother, Staff Sgt. Tammi Johnson, base defense practices Jan. 22 at Kirkuk Air Base, Iraq. Both are reservists working for the 506th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron.


Reservist takes over in Kirkuk — from son
Staff report
Posted : Tuesday Jan 29, 2008 6:04:52 EST

They say parenting is a never-ending learning experience — but it’s not every day your child instructs you on deployed perimeter security.

That’s what awaited Staff Sgt. Tammi Johnson, a reservist with the 507th Security Forces Squadron at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., who deployed to Kirkuk Air Base, Iraq. When she arrived Jan. 20, according to an Air Force press release, Johnson’s first assignment was a week of training from the airman she was there to replace: her son, Senior Airman Derrick Johnson.

“This is all just a big coincidence,” said Derrick Johnson, a reservist with the 610th Security Forces Squadron from Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas. “When I found out she was coming to replace me, my jaw dropped just wondering what the chances were of this occurring.”

The chance assignment for mother to replace son was indeed random, the press release said.

Both Tammi and Derrick Johnson enlisted in 2006. Tammi Johnson had served in the Air Force in the 1980s, and the same recruiter who signed Derrick talked Tammi back into the blue again. Both chose to join Security Forces.


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