The event recognizes the two most-deserving officers exchanged between the U.S. Air Force and the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force, according to a release from the British Consulate-General in Chicago.
Gogbashian will confer the Royal Air Force sword to Group Capt. Andrew Lloyd, who served on exchange as deputy director of logistics at the U.S. Air Force Sustainment Center, according to the consulate.
In turn, the Air Force sword will be conferred by Gen. Arnold W. Bunch Jr., commander of Air Force Materiel Command, based at Wright-Patterson, to Capt. Katie Broyles for her exchange service at RAF Wyton in Cambridgeshire, England.
The Sword of Honor award was established in 2009 by the Royal Air Force Museum American Foundation, to be presented annually to the RAF exchange officer who most contributed in the previous year to relations between the two nations and their air forces.
In 2012, another sword was added to recognize the most outstanding U.S. Air Force officer on exchange with the RAF.
The consulate said Ohio exports to the UK totalled $3.8 billion in 2019, supporting 20,640 Ohio jobs, while UK subsidiaries employed 49,100 Ohioans.
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