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28, 2017
Vienna resident wins national award for contributions to defense
Retired U.S. Air Force Col. Thomas Tim Davidson of Vienna
recently received the National Defense Industrial Associations
R. Lynn Rylander Award the highest honor presented for significant
and lasting contributions to the special-operations community.
Col. Davidson is a combat veteran of Southeast Asia, where he flew 120
combat missions and received two Distinguished Flying Crosses and 11
Air Medals. He moved to Vienna in 1993 while assigned to the Office
of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity
Conflict. Davidson is a longtime member of Wesley United Methodist Church
and coached Vienna Youth Soccer for nine years.
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The R. Lynn Rylander Award, our highest honor, is presented
annually to an individual who has made distinctive contributions in the
areas of Special Operations, Low Intensity Conflict, or Irregular Warfare.
Achievements may be singular or cumulative, but in the spirit of R. Lynn
Rylanders service, the policy, guidance, leadership, or mission
contributions must have been of the highest impact highly significant
and lasting to the SO/LIC community and show support of the goals
and objectives of NDIA and the SO/LIC Division. The Award is named for
R. Lynn Rylander, a Department of Defense civilian who was a founding
member of the organization which is now the SO/LIC Division of NDIA. Lynn
was an early advocate and activist on the revitalization of Special Operations
Forces and the organizational and legislative changes required to sustain
them.
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