Veteran Salute: Growing in leadership over three decades with the Air Force

TOPEKA (KSNT) - With an immediate family full of servicemembers totaling 99 years in the military, Chief Master Sergeant Maurice Smith contributes almost a third to that service record.

For over 30 years in the Air Force and Air National Guard, he'd travel across the globe; training fellow servicemembers, keeping aircraft sky bound and growing in leadership responsibilities along the way.

During the Vietnam conflict, Smith and his team trained up airmen on B57's, one of the first jet bombers in Vietnam.