Meet the new recruiter

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  • By the 482nd Fighter Wing Public Affairs Office
HOMESTEAD AIR RESERVE BASE, Fla. --  (Editor's note: The 482nd Fighter Wing's recruiting efforts extend throughout Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe Counties in search of the Citizen Airmen of tomorrow. The wing operates offices at Homestead ARB and in the Cities of Doral, Lauderhill and Hialeah. We'd like to introduce Staff Sgt. Horace Cox, our new recruiter.)

Time in service: 8 years active duty, 5 years reserve.

Previous assignment and job before recruiting: I left active duty after 8 years and began working at Homestead Job Corps, a school adjacent to Homestead Air Reserve Base providing disadvantaged young adults with training and education programs. While working there, many of the students would come up to me and ask about the military, and I'd help guide them toward the different branches of the service they were interested in. I realized that the young people that I encountered were no different from me at that age. I told them stories of my experiences and places I've been such as Okinawa, Germany, Hawaii and the thriving metropolis that is Columbus AFB in Mississippi.

Hometown: I was raised in a military family, so I've lived all over the place. But I was mostly raised here in Miami.

Off-duty activities: I'm married, my wife Amy and I have two daughters. So my off duty activities mainly consist of doing whatever I'm told (I'm out numbered). If everyone's asleep I might have a chance to work on my movie script or watch a movie.

Goals while stationed at Homestead ARB: To keep the Air Force Reserve stocked with good people that believe in this country.

Recruiting philosophy: Remembering that I once sat on the other side of the table.

Greatest Air Force memory: Being 20 yrs old and catching my first "Hop" to Hawaii.

Who is the person who's had the greatest impact on your life? My parents, Helen and Horace.

If you could pick any actor to play the lead role in your life, who would it be and why? Damon Wayans as a drill sergeant in the movie "Major Payne."

If you could have dinner with any three people, who would they be? Jesus, Malcolm X and any World War II veteran. I would ask Jesus, "How do I make the world a better place?" I would ask Malcolm X, "Where he found his courage to admit to himself and others that he could change his way of thinking?" I would ask the WWII veteran "How it feels to have impacted the world the way that you have?"

(Sergeant Cox may be reached at (305) 224-7128 or at Horace.Cox@homestead.af.mil)