Freddie Dawkins, a pneudraulics systems mechanic at Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE), celebrated his retirement from federal service after 70 years of combined military and civilian service. Dawkins retired from the U.S. Air Force after 26 years of service and then worked disassembling, assembling, repairing and overhauling various turbine compressor assemblies with Naval Air Systems Command since January 1981.