[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 196 (Wednesday, November 18, 2020)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1046-E1047]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 RECOGNIZING CHIEF MASTER SERGEANT JOHN T. BEY'S RETIREMENT FOLLOWING 
   HIS YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE COMMONWEALTH AND THE UNITED STATES OF 
                                AMERICA

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                            HON. SCOTT PERRY

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, November 18, 2020

  Mr. PERRY. Madam Speaker, I'm honored to congratulate Chief Master 
Sergeant John T. Bey on his years of service to the Commonwealth of 
Pennsylvania, and the United States of America.
  Chief Bey first enlisted in the Air Force Reserve in January 1986. He 
attended technical school at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, and then 
was assigned as an electrical linesman at the 911th Air Wing (AW), Air 
Reserve Station Pittsburgh, where he served for nineteen years. Chief 
Bey also cross trained into the Fiscal Management (FM) career field in 
2004, wherein he ascended the ranks at the 911th AW to Chief Master 
Sergeant. Chief Bey Joined the Pennsylvania Air National Guard in 
February 2016, and was selected as the Special Operations Mission 
Support Group Chief, 193rd Special Operations Wing (SOW), Middletown, 
Pennsylvania. He served for just over one year before being selected as 
the Superintendent of the 193rd Special Operations Comptroller Flight.
  Chief Bey is responsible for overseeing and managing the peacetime 
training and wartime deployment of a fifteen-person FM team. 
Additionally, his team is responsible for the FM capabilities serving 
over 1800 traditional Guard

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Members, 400 dual-status Technicians and 150 AGR personnel during the 
193rd SOW's regularly scheduled drills and daily operations. The FM 
team also oversees all financial management deployment briefings and 
newcomer orientation briefings and accessions.
  In addition to Chief Bey's service in the Air Force, he's also served 
in the Pennsylvania State Police, where he first enlisted on June 5, 
1989. He was appointed to the Special Emergency Response Team as a 
Crisis Negotiator in 1995 until 2003, when he was promoted to 
Lieutenant and served as Patrol Section Commander and Criminal 
Investigation Section Commander for Troop G, Hollidaysburg. He was 
promoted to Captain in 2008, and served as of Administration and 
Director Training in the Bureau of Education and Training until 2014. 
Chief Bey retired from the Pennsylvania State Police on October 13, 
2014, at which time he served as Chief of Police for the Middletown 
Borough Police Department until 2016.
  With great honor, I commend Chief Master Sergeant John T. Bey for his 
distinguished career of service to our great Commonwealth and Nation. 
His selfless service, dedication to duty, and tireless efforts to 
serving and protecting our Citizens on myriad levels is a great credit 
to himself, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the United States of 
America.

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