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Fairchild's Finest: Airman 1st Class Keegan McArthur

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FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE-Wash. --  Name: Airman 1st Class Keegan McArthur

Unit: 92nd Aerospace Medicine Squadron

Duty title: Aerospace Medicine Service Apprentice

Home town and state: Portland, Oregon

What do you do on a daily basis at Fairchild AFB? Other than going to work in the Flight Medicine Clinic, I am an avid Soccer player. I am the Vice-President and Co-founder of the soccer club on base.

What do you enjoy about your job? What I enjoy most about my job is the people I work with. This is a very light hearted group, full of hard workers and jokers a like and laughter makes my days go so much faster.

What is your greatest accomplishment? My greatest accomplishment in life has to be winning the Bronze medal in Berlin, Germany at the Dragon boat World Championships in 2005.

What is your favorite quote? "Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world." Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

Who is your favorite mentor and what did you learn from him/her? My favorite mentor was a High School teacher of mine names Derek Shuttleworth. He taught me how to look deeper into the meaning of what I was reading and studying and that not everything is black and white. But most of all, he showed me that I wanted to teach and follow his example.

If you could spend one hour with any person, who would it be and why? I would spend an hour with Abraham Lincoln. I would like to pick his brain about the Civil war, his policies as president and to talk about life in general.