StarForce History
StarForce Co-founders, Judy McCullough and Frank Mayfield, Jr. enjoying a summer day on their farm in southern Ohio
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StarForce was incorporated in 2001. However, its origins lay in the mid 1990s when Judy McCullough's well respected Cincinnati-based livery service was approached by the Beckley, West Virginia MEPS to help in an emergency.
A record setting snow storm had collapsed the roof at the MEPS, and the Commander needed to move West Virginia recruits to alternative MEPS, including Columbus MEPS in Ohio. So, Judy dispatched her drivers and vehicles. Through that one-time event, Judy and her co-founder, Frank Mayfield, became acquainted with the military's vital recruiting mission and the transportation needs which are a part of it.. |
In 1999 McCullough and Mayfield were invited by the Great Lakes Army Recruiting Battalion and the 339th Air Force Recruiting Squadron in Michigan, to propose and test a new approach to military recruit transportation to and from the MEPS: Eight dedicated routes connected thirty two Armed Forces Recruiting Centers located on the periphery to two centralized Michigan MEPS (Lansing & Detroit) were to be implemented --
Fifteen years later, StarForce has taken the concepts established in Michigan across the country. We operate transportation plans now in twenty nine states on behalf of the recruiting commands of all branches of service, and the joint Military Enlistment Processing Command (MEPCOM). See the timeline below charting our progress from Proof of Concept in Michigan in 1999 to today and a national footprint which now spans a distance of close to five thousand miles from Jacksonville, Florida to Anchorage, Alaska.
- providing scheduled chartered round trip transportation exclusively for the military
- eliminating the need for ticketing or booking individual passenger fares via commercial carriers
- providing door-to-door service for the military's recruits -- picking them up at the recruiter's office and delivering them to the Front Control Desk of the MEPS
- delivering the service with a driver corps composed mostly of Veterans of the Armed Services, and fully supportive of their young passengers who are considering careers in the Nation's military.
Fifteen years later, StarForce has taken the concepts established in Michigan across the country. We operate transportation plans now in twenty nine states on behalf of the recruiting commands of all branches of service, and the joint Military Enlistment Processing Command (MEPCOM). See the timeline below charting our progress from Proof of Concept in Michigan in 1999 to today and a national footprint which now spans a distance of close to five thousand miles from Jacksonville, Florida to Anchorage, Alaska.