JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- Leverette Hoover (right), Alaska Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve’s vice chair, presents the ESGR Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award to Melinda Rathkopf, director of the Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Center of Alaska at their Anchorage clinic Sept. 29, 2022. AAIC employee and 176th Wing Alaska Air National Guardsmen Capt. Bryan Farthing recommended the clinic for the award. (Alaska Air National Guard photo by David Bedard)