Air Force Senior Airman Orlando D. Hudson has graduated from Airman Leadership School at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D.
The five-week course is designed to train senior airmen to understand their positions in the Air Force organizational structure, combat leadership, supervisory communications skills, and profession of arms, which are needed for professional development to be effective noncommissioned officers. Airmen are prepared and better equipped to serve as supervisors, managers and rating officials as they progress in their enlisted military careers.
The school is the first of three levels of professional military education programs used to develop and cultivate leadership and supervisory skills. The course is required for airmen to complete prior to being promoted to the rank of staff sergeant.
Hudson is the son of Leslie D. Sipple, brother of Rymiah J. Tenn-Hue of Kansas City, Kan. and grandson of Patsie A. Sipple of Kansas City, Kan.
He is a 2007 graduate of Manhattan High School, Manhattan, Kan. He earned an associate degree in 2014 from the Community College of the Air Force, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.