Army Staff Sgt. Joey L. Wing has been inducted into the Sgt. Audie L. Murphy Club, a club formed in 1986 in honor of the Army’s World War II most decorated combat soldier, Audie Leon Murphy.

The elite organization is composed of noncommissioned officers who have demonstrated their inherent leadership qualities and abilities, military knowledge and skills, and courage in performance of assigned duties and responsibilities as characterized by Sergeant Murphy.

Inductees must be sponsored by their first sergeant and recommended by their unit commander. The candidates are reviewed and evaluated by a high ranking selection board who question, test, and score soldiers on their level of knowledge in a range of subjects that warrant induction. Of the few inductees who are recommended, a low percentage are selected as qualified members. Inductees receive the Audie L. Murphy medallion in their recognition of their accomplishment.

Wing is an instructor and writer with C Co., 2nd Battalion, 29th Infantry, 197th Infantry Brigade, Fort Benning, Ga. He has served 11 years in the military.

He is the son of Peter M. and Patricia M. Garcia of Auburn. His wife, Kassie, is the daughter of Edward J. Gervais of St. David and Louise C. Gervais of Jackson Center, Pa.

Wing is a 2002 graduate of Edward Little High School, Auburn. He earned a bachelor’s degree in 2007 from the University of Maine at Presque Isle.