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competition against all Air ForceBy STEVE McHENRY CN Staff WriterEaker AFB has the best newswriter in the Strategic Air Command.Tech. Sgt. Craig A. Dooms has recently won the annual SAC newswriting award and is now entered in an Air Force-wide contest to determine the best writer in the Air Force. The winner of that award will compete against all other military services for the Thomas Jefferson Award, which determines the best writer in the military.Dooms said that he has previously won twice at the command level but has not done as well inwriters.Dooms’ winning entry consisted of stories on Blytheville’s first Rail Garrison meeting; an article on a Soviet rocket entering the Earth’s atmosphere which produced a UFO scare throughout the midwest; and a story of Eaker personnel who helped civil authorities locate some lost hunters in the Big Lake Wildlife Refuge.Dooms has been in the Air Force for 16 years, spending all that time in various base Public Affairs Offices. Six of those years were on the European staff of Stars Stripes, a military-oriented newspaper printed in Europe and Asia. He said he has covered everythingfrom hard news to features to sports.At Eaker, Dooms is responsible for putting out the weekly Blythe Spirit, the base newspaper.Since December, 1987, the Blythe Spirit has consistently been a top finisher in the SAC monthly newspaper contest. For the first quarter of 1988, the Spirit was named as SAC’s best paper.Dooms and his wife, Tracy,have been at Eaker for two years.He said that he will probably have one more duty station before the question of retirement arises.“My wife has a journalism background,” Dooms said. “I would like to own a small paper with her when I get out. ”
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Blytheville Courier News
Blytheville, Arkansas, US
Fri, Nov 18, 1988
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