WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Military service is a family tradition for Staff Sgt. Robert Day. With a father in the Army National Guard and a lineage stretching back to the D-Day invasion, it was his mother, Tonya Day, who took him to see an Air Force recruiter. She saw something in him from the very beginning of his journey.
“I remember when he served in the Air Force Honor Guard, I could see what a natural born leader he was...