On one of the coldest days of the year, the 561st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron with the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, warmed many hearts by surprising a child with Christmas gifts and fellowship Dec. 22, 2022.

The 561st AMXS, who maintains F-15 aircraft, invited Keason Milton and his mother, Tiffany Milton, to their hangar to help celebrate the 5-year-old completing his last chemotherapy treatment.

“Several months ago, we all got together and decided that we were going to adopt a family this year for Christmas as a way to give back to the community,” said Robert Koehler, 561st AMXS mechanic work lead.

Keason has been battling Ewing-like Sarcoma since the age of two. The rare cancer can occur in the bones or the soft tissue surrounding the bones.

As part of the commemoration of ending his chemotherapy, members of the 561st AMXS decided to fulfill some of Keason’s Christmas wish list.

Though he moved about quietly, Keason excitedly ran around a large table holding many presents from him.

“Mommy, can I open them?” he asked while tugging at his mother’s sweater. Once she gave the okay, he tore into the various wrapped packages.

Among the gifts was a gaming system, television, watch and remote-control car.