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Air Force Reserve Staff Sgt. John B. Smithdorff is currently deployed overseas at a forward operating location in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Operation Iraqi Freedom is the official name given to military operations involving members of the U.S. armed forces and coalition forces participating in efforts to free and secure Iraq. Mission objectives focus on force protection, peacekeeping, stabilization, security and counter-insurgency operations as the Iraqi transitional governing bodies assume full sovereign powers to govern the peoples of Iraq.

Members from all branches of the U.S. military and multinational forces are also assisting in rebuilding Iraq’s economic and governmental infrastructure, and training and preparing Iraqi military and security forces to assume full authority and responsibility in defending and preserving Iraq’s sovereignty and independence as a democracy.

Smithdorff, an aerospace ground equipment technician, is normally assigned to the 301st Maintenance Squadron, Carswell Air Reserve Station, Fort Worth, Texas. He has served in the military for 11 years.

He is the son of Mark and Pat Smithdorff, Whitehouse. The sergeant is a 1991 graduate of Thomas K. Gorman High School.