A treasured honor

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  • By Senior Airman Stephen Linch
  • 509th Bomb Wing Public Affairs
WHITEMAN AIR FORCE BASE, Mo. --  A 509th Comptroller became the first Air Force recipient of the U.S .Treasury Cash Management Service Medal of Honor Dec. 11.

Senior Master Sgt. Michael Windsor, 509th Comptroller Squadron superintendent, recently became the sixth person to earn this medal for his service while deployed as the CENTAF forward deputy disbursing officer at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. 

"Sergeant Windsor exemplifies the warrior ethos that is taken all over the world by Team Whiteman members in support of the Global War on Terror," said Maj. Sanora Brunson, 509th Comptroller Squadron commander. "He is top-notched and deserving of this treasured honor." 

The U.S. Treasury Cash Management Service Medal of Honor is awarded for outstanding achievement and unparalleled service to the U.S.Treasury Cash Management Service.

Sergeant Windsor earned the award by leading the deployment of EagleCash stored-value card program to nine Air Force installations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, Kryrgyzstan, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

The deployment involved ordering and coordinating shipments of equipment for each site, installing the equipment, training functional areas and maintaining the EagleCash Community of Practice thru which all transactions with the US Treasury/Federal Reserve Bank of Boston passed.

"Our team installed more than $500,000 of kiosks, laptops, point-of-sale terminals and cards to replace the need for deployed personnel to carry 'hard' cash within the area of responsibility," Sergeant Windsor said. "I'm honored to receive this prestigious award, This was entirely a team effort from the to the deployed paying agents to the support of Central Air Force Financial Management and Secretary of the Air Force Financial Management."

Sergeant Windsor was also selected as the Financial Management Comptroller of the Quarter, October - December 2007.

To date, more than 330,000 cards have been issued and have been used to process 15 million electronic transactions valued at more than $1 billion. 

EagleCash is an electronic currency card accepted by all Army and Air Force Exchange Services, force support squadron and postal facilities at deployed locations.