Featured Airmen
Tech. Sgt. Thomas Bauhs
On June 1, 2014, Tech. Sgt. Thomas Bauhs, a combat controller attached to an Army Special Forces team, was conducting a large-scale combined clearance mission with Afghan National Security Forces in an enemy-dominated valley in ...
BRANTLEY, Parker & BUSHEY
On May 21, 2014, while deployed to the 466th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Flight Operating Location - Bravo, Tech. Sgt. Kristopher Parker, Senior Airman TJ Brantley and (then) Senior Airman Kyle Bushey, air assaulted into ...
FONCK, GRIEGO & HARDIN
Master Sgt. Dominick Griego, an Air Mobility Command fuels specialist; Tech. Sgt. Austin Hardin, the Air Force Materiel Command drive team NCO in charge; and Staff Sgt. Mechele Fonck, an Air Education and Training Command ...
HURLEY, JERDEN & SEARS
On September 29, 2012, a three-man explosive ordnance disposal team, consisting of Tech. Sgt. Michael Sears, Staff Sgt. John Hurley and Staff Sgt. Joshua Jerden, defeated two separate improvised explosive ...
TSGT MCGILLIVRAY
On July 13, 2013, while conducting a patrol in Wardak Province, Afghanistan, Tech. Sgt. Patrick McGillivray and his team leader were ambushed by insurgents. As an explosive ordnance disposal team member ...
TSGT MCKENNA
Tech. Sgt. Matthew McKenna, a combat controller, and his Army Special Forces team, were aligned with an Afghan special operations partner force in Kandahar Province to push back determined insurgent forces ...
MELENDEZ, SAMPSON & TREADWELL
At 4:15 a.m., July 17, 2014, Tech. Sgts. Rafael Melendez, Randy Sampson and Matthew Treadwell, assigned to NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan, were asleep in Kabul. Suddenly, loud explosions and the sound ...
MSGT RUIZ
On Dec.10, 2013, Master Sgt. Ivan Ruiz, a pararescueman, was attached as the lone rescue specialist to an Army Special Forces team assaulting a Taliban stronghold. The team inserted into the Mushan village area ...
TSGT SHEA
Tech. Sgt. David Shea is a flight engineer for the CV-22 Osprey. On Dec. 21, 2013, he manned the ramp-mounted tail gun during an attempted rescue of American citizens from a densely populated ...
MSGT WASSOM
As a tornado demolished Master Sgt. Daniel Wassom’s house, he and his wife, Suzanne, tried to protect their 5- and 7-year-old daughters by using their own bodies as shields. It worked. Their children survived – but Dan did not. ...
TSGT WILSON
In September 2013 Staff Sgt. Daniel Wilson deployed to Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, to the 455th Security Forces Group as a military working dog handler. Wilson and MWD Dan completed more than 60 outside-the-wire ...
CORNETT, JACOBS, RECTOR, JUNIPER & POWELL
On October 8, 2013, five Air Force air crew members were onboard a two-ship formation of Afghan Mi-17 helicopters, conducting a troop movement mission in Uruzgan Province. The five advisors ...
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