Colley Top Engineer in Air National Guard
Ellis, Davis and 202nd Family Readiness Group Captures Top EIS Honors

Chief Master Sergeant Robert Colley

Chief Master Sergeant Robert Colley of Butler, GA, an 18-year veteran of the 202nd Engineering Installation Squadron (EIS) of the Georgia Air National Guard has captured the Air National Guard Engineering and Installation Engineer of the Year Award for 2004. 

Also receiving top recognitions at the National ANG EIS Conference held recently in New Orleans was SSgt Kenyua Ellis of the 202nd who received the 2004 ANG EI Outstanding NCO of the Year award and SMSgt Anthony Davis of Birmingham who captured the 2004 ANG Engineering Installation First Sergeant of the Year Award. The 202nd EIS Family Readiness Group won the EIS Family Readiness Award for a series of activities which ANG EIS officials say far exceeded its charter.

Colley, 47, is the Non-commissioned Officer in Charge of the Engineering Section of the 141-person 202nd EIS of the Georgia Air National Guard located at Middle Georgia Regional Airport in Macon.

Colley was recognized for his design and installation of communications cables and equipment for Air Force and Air National Guard bases and facilities throughout the southeastern United States as well as overseas in Puerto Rico, Ecuador and the Republic of Georgia.

Last year Colley was also recognized as the Air National Guard EIS Engineer of the Year for 2003 and 202nd EIS Senior NCO of the Year.

SSgt Kenyua Ellis of the 202nd received the 2004 ANG EI Outstanding NCO of the Year award.  The four-year veteran of Lithonia is an Engineering Assistant and Draftsman for the unit.  The 2004 ANG Engineering Installation First Sergeant of the Year was presented to SMSgt Anthony Davis of Birmingham, a 15-year veteran of the unit.

Colley, Ellis and Davis as well as the 202nd Family Readiness Group competed for their honors against engineers from the nineteen Engineering and Installation Squadrons in the U.S. Air Force.  Brigadier General John Maluda, Director of Communications and Information Systems, Headquarters Air Combat Command, Langley Air Force Base, Va. and Colonel Craig Brown,  Director of Air National Guard Command, Control, Communications and Computers at the National Guard Bureau.

SSgt Kenyua Ellis of the 202nd was presented with the 2004 ANG EI Outstanding NCO of the Year award.  The four-year veteran of Lithonia is an Engineering Assistant and Draftsman for the unit.  The 2004 ANG Engineering Installation First Sergeant of the Year was presented to SMSgt Anthony Davis of Birmingham, a 15-year veteran of the unit.  The 202nd EIS Family Readiness Award also went to the 202nd for its activities which EIS officials said far exceeded its charter

The Georgia Air National Guard's 202nd Engineering Installation Squadron provides engineering, installation, removal and relocation of command, control and communications systems throughout the world.