FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Cinnamon Kava, 5th Expeditionary Air Mobility Squadron combat oriented support operations supply specialist, spins a basketball on her fingertips, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, at Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait. Kava focused on her dedication to basketball to help her fight her battle against Hodgkin lymphoma in 2017. (U.S. Air Force file photo) Sergeant from Travis dunks on cancer ALI AL SALEM AIR BASE, Kuwait — A social media notification lit up her phone with a four-year-old memory from when Staff Sgt. Cinnamon Kava was in the middle of her first deployment. These are the memories she typically pushes to the back of her mind, but this blatant reminder of the diagnosis that cut her deployment short and got her medically evacuated home, confronted her head-on.