Tecumseh Police Sergeant J.D. Sanders is shown in dress uniform for the Air National Guard in 1996.
In 2004, J.D. Sanders poses by the sign for the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing’s “Camp Andy” at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, which was named for “Master Sgt. Evander E. “Andy” Andrews, the first American serviceman to lose his life in support of Operation Enduring Freedom,” according to the U.S. Air Forces Central website. In the Air National Guard, Sanders served in Qatar and Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War, working on the Logistics Readiness Squadron, shipping needed items to the front lines.
J.D. Sanders’ father, John Kenneth "Kenny" Sanders, pins his Security Police Shield onto his uniform upon graduation from the Air Force Security Police Academy in 1983. Photo provided.
J.D. Sanders is shown at desert warfare school in 1985. Photo provided.
In 1982, 18-year-old J.D. Sanders graduated from Capital Hill High School in OKC and decided to follow in his father’s footsteps.“My dad was in the Air Force, and that was kind of the reason,” said Sanders. “However, I wanted to have a job where I carried a weapon, but I didn’t necessarily want to be a dig-in-the-dirt grunt, you know, so I decided against the Army and the Marin...
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