"Silver Cross of Honor of the German Armed Forces"

Oct 7, 2009

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Brigadier General (Air Force) Gero Schachthöfer,Commander of German Armed Forces in North America

Honorary Consul of Germany, Norma Henning,

Brigadier General (Air Force), Lothar Schmidt, the new Head of the German Liaison Command



On October 7, on the occasion of the celebration of the Day of German Unity, the German National Day, the German Honorary Consul in Naples, FL, Norma Henning received the "Ehrenkreuz der Bundeswehr in Silber" ("Silver Cross of Honor of the German Armed Forces") from the hands of Brigadier General Gero Schachthöfer, Commander of German Armed Forces in North America, for her support of the German Liaison Command at US Central Command at McDill Air Force Base in Tampa, FL. This distinction is the only one of the German Armed Forces and is usually awarded exclusively to soldiers for extraordinary performance of duty and valor. The German Consulate General in Miami thanks Norma Henning for her continuous support of German soldiers in Tampa and congratulates her on this acknowledgement of her outstanding merits.

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