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Mark and Johnna Wyte
of Kings Mountain announce
the engagement of their
daughter, Crystal Danielle
Wyte, to Jase Shoe of Char-
lotte, son of Jeff and Wende
Shoe of Kannapolis.
The bride-elect, grand-
daughter of Gilbert and Sadie
Patterson and Joe and Becky
Wyte, all of Kings Mountain,
is a UNCC graduate with a
BS degree in Business/Mar-
keting. She is employed by
Anita Goodesign in Char-
CRYSTAL DANIELLE WYTE
‘Wyte-Shoe to wed
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lotte.
The prospective bride-
groom is the grandson of
Gary and Marilyn Helms,
Sharron Helms, Jerry and
Doris Church and the late
Allen Shoe. He is a UNCC
graduate with a B. S. degree
in Construction Management.
He is employed by Vannoy
Construction in Charlotte.
The wedding will be an
event of October 3, 2015 at
Green Gables Farm in States-
ville.
Human trafficking topic of seminar
East Gold Street Wes-
leyan Church, 701 E. Gold
St., will sponsor a human
trafficking abolitionist
seminar June 12 from 6-9
p.m. and community train-
ing on June 13 from 9 a.m.-
noon. ;
The seminar is pre-
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Colonel Todd Gossett Retires
Colonel Todd W. Gossett,
son of Malcolm and Shirley
Brutko of Kings Mountain
and the late Roy Gossett of
Greensboro, retired from the
United States Air Force on
June 1, 2015, at a ceremony
at the Pentagon, Washington,
D.C. attended by friends, fam-
ily, and military colleagues.
_ Colonel Gossett served
nrore than 26 years in the Air
Force in a variety of opera-
tional space and missile as-
signments as well as several
headquarters staff assign-
ments. In his first assign-
ment, he served as a missile
combat crew commander for
the Minuteman II and Min-
uteman III Intercontinental
Ballistic Missile systems at
Malmstrom Air Force Base,
Montana. He later served as
a flight commander and chief
of training for the Milstar sat-
ellite communications system
at Falcon AFB, Colorado.
After assignments as a
satellite test officer and ex-
ecutive officer for the Space
Warfare Center, also in Col-
orado, he was selected to
attend the United Air Force
Weapons School at Nellis Air
Force Base, Nevada. Upon
graduation, he served as a
weapons and tactics officer at
Headquarters, 14th Air Force,
Vandenberg AFB, California.
After attending the Air
Force’s Air Command and
Staff College at Maxwell
AFB, Alabama, Colonel
Gossett was selected to serve
at Headquarters United States
Air Force at the Pentagon as a
space operations staff officer
and as a deputy chief of the
Col. TODD GOSSETT
action group for the Air Force
Deputy Chief of Staff for Air
and Space Operations. Then
a major, Colonel Gossett was
in the Pentagon during the
September 11, 2001 attacks
and in the immediate after-
math, he served on the Air
Force’s Crisis Action Team
and later, on the Checkmate
Planning team developing
strategy options for the war
on terrorism. Following his
first Pentagon tour, he was
- selected to command the 76th
Space Control Squadron at
Peterson AFB, Colorado. In
that assignment, he led a team
of 70 personnel to make op-
erational the Air Force’s first
three offensive counterspace
systems, developed to dis-
rupt adversary space systems
with temporary and reversible
effects.
After graduating from the
Naval War College at Naval
Station Newport, Rhode Is-
land, Colonel Gossett was
once again assigned to the
Pentagon, this time to the
Joint Chiefs of Staff as Mis-
sile Defense Branch Chief,
and later as Strategic Opera-
tions Division Chief, where
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
he oversaw the nation’s nu-
clear command and control
procedures, the President’s
Nuclear Decision Handbook
(“The Black Book”), the Sec-
retary of Defense’s maritime
counter-proliferation opera-
tions order, and the Chairman,
Joint Chiefs of Staff’s conti-
nuity of operations program.
Selected for group com-
mand, Colonel Gossett served
as commander, 30th Oper-
ations Group, Vandenberg
AFB, California. At Van-
denberg, he led team of more,
than 1,000 military members,
civilians, and contractors
overseeing Western Range
operations for 21 national
security, commercial, and
civil space launches as well
as several missile and mis-
sile defense tests. He also
served as operations director
for the first-ever recovery of
the X-37B experimental space
plane in December, 2010.
After a successful tour as
a group commander, Colonel
Gossett was selected as Di-
rector of Staff for the 379th
Air Expeditionary Wing, Al
Udeid Air Base, Qatar. In that
capacity, he led a staff of over
120 personnel delivering crit-
ical support to 5,000 deployed
Air Force personnel and an-
other 6,000 personnel from
other services and allied na-
‘tions, conducting operations
in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the
Horn of Africa.
Following his deployment
to Qatar, Colonel Gossett
was assigned once again to
Headquarters United States
Air Force at the Pentagon,
this time Chief of the Space
Operations Division. For the
past two years, he’s served as
Deputy Director, Space Op-
erations where he presides
over a staff of 38 space pro-
fessionals overseeing devel-
opment of space operations
policy and mission directives,
support to space operations
and maintenance budget de-
velopment, space operations
career field management,
international engagement,
congressional engagement for
space operations and capa-
bilities matters, and support
to Air Force leadership, the
Joint Staff, the Office of the
Secretary of Defense, and the
functional and regional com-
batant commanders.
He is a recipient of the Nu-
clear Deterrence Operations
Service Medal, Armed Forces
Service Medal, Global War
on Terrorism Service Medal,
Global War on Terrorism
Expeditionary Medal, Na-
tional Defense Service Medal,
Combat Readiness Medal, Air
Force Achievement Medal,
Air Force Commendation
Medal, Meritorious Service
Medal, Legion of Merit, and
Defense Superior Service
Medal.
The colonel is a 1984 grad-
uate of Kings Mountain High
School and a 1988 graduate
of the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. He
is married to the former Lisa
Kowalske of Charlotte. The
Gossetts have three daughters,
Kaela, 19, Nora, 15, and Ada,
12.
The Gossetts plan to re-
main in the Washington, D.C.
area.
Two churches to hold Bible School June 15-19
Advent Lutheran Church
and Boyce Memorial ARP
Church are inviting children
from 2 years of age through
those who have completed
fifth grade to join them for
Vacation Bible School be-
ginning: Monday, June 15
through Friday, June 19.
The Bible School will
be held at Boyce Memorial
ARP Church, 111 Edgemont
Dr., from 8:45 a.m. until
12:15 each day.
For more information
or to pre-register, call the
church office at 704-739-
4917 or email Pastor Nick
Napier at info@boyceme-
morial.org.
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