High Time:

Jan. 4, 2007

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A couple of airmen got to help New Yorkers celebrate the New Year. TSgt. Sonya Bulluck, with Air Force Reserve Command’s 514th Air Mobility Wing at McGuire AFB, N.J., and 1st Lt. Erick Saks, with the active duty 305th AMW at McGuire, joined other select service members in helping to push the Big Apple button to ring the chimes in New York City’s Times Square to usher in the New Year.

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