167th Airlift Wing Airmen spotlighted

West Virginia University's Television Productions film crew conducts an interview with Senior Airman Nathan Sisler at the 167th Airlift Wing, Martinsburg, West Virginia, on August 27, 2009. Sisler, a WVU senior and a West Virginia Airman of the Year recipient for 2009, was chosen to be featured in a new recruiting video for WVU because of his leadership qualities according to Kelly Heasley, special projects prouducer for WVU's Television Productions. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Emily Beightol-Deyerle)

167th Airlift Wing Airmen spotlighted

Hannah Maxwell, a production assistant for West Virginia University's Television Productions, documents an interview for a recruiting video for WVU with Senior Airman Nathan Sisler in a C-5 aircraft at the 167th Airlift Wing, Martinsburg, West Virginia, on August 27, 2009. Sisler, a WVU senior and a West Virginia Airman of the Year recipient for 2009, was chosen to be featured in the video because of his leadership qualities according to Kelly Heasley, special projects prouducer for WVU's Television Productions. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Emily Beightol-Deyerle)

167th Airlift Wing Airman spotlighted

Published Sept. 1, 2009
By SSgt Sherree Grebenstein
167th AIrlift WIng

Martinsburg, W.Va. -- A film crew from West Virginia University's Television Productions recently visited the 167th Airlift Wing and spent a few hours documenting Senior Airman Nathan Sisler at work on the flight line.
Sisler, a C-5 crew chief, was interviewed for a student recruitment video for WVU. He will be among a handful of students spotlighted on the video. Sisler was named the 167th Airman of the Year for the State of West Virginia in 2009. In addition, he was awarded the J. Kemp McLaughlin Trophy as the overall top Airman in the Mountain State.
"We interviewed Senior Airman Nathan Sisler for WVU's new student recruitment video because of Airman Sisler's incredible leadership qualities," said Kelly A. Heasley, special projects producer for WVU's Television Productions.
A senior at WVU, Sisler is completing his bachelor's degree in diplomacy and international security with an emphasis on intelligence and national security. He is also minoring in leadership studies.
"We will use the footage we recorded to edit a short feature on Airman Sisler to help entice new students to West Virginia University," Heasley said. "We try to highlight the opportunities and life experience that they have gained during their time at WVU and show that WVU can help change their life and focus their dreams and open the world to them."
Heasley said the video, which is expected to be completed within the next few months, will be played primarily at WVU's Visitors Resource Center to prospective students and their families.
"But it also has a much wider area of play, as the video is taken on most overseas visits," she said. "This is the university's main form of introduction for many potential students and is used during school visits around the state, at fairs, and many other trips across the country and abroad."