Shurer was awarded the Medal of Honor on October 1, 2018, for his actions as a Green Beret medic with 3rd Special Forces Group during the Battle of Shok Valley in northeastern Afghanistan on April 6, 2008. Shurer was part of a team sent to capture or kill several high-value members of the Hezeb Islami al Gulbadin militant group. He passed away May 14, 2020, at the age of 41.
Members from the 5th Bomb Wing, 7th Bomb Wing, 28th Bomb Wing and 509th Bomb Wing will be participating in a military flyover for Super Bowl 55 at Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, Fla., Feb. 7, 2021.
Candidates in the Special Reconnaissance, Combat Control and Special Tactics Officer career fields complete their apprentice course at Pope Air Field in North Carolina.
The U.S. Air Force Special Warfare Training Wing at JBSA and San Antonio Sports hosted local high school JROTC cadets to test their teamwork and physical capabilities against each other in a challenging and fun-filled competition.
Air Force Combat Controller Tech. Sgt. John A. Chapman was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor August 22, 2018 for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty.”
Chapman is the 19th Airman awarded the Medal of Honor since the Department of the Air Force was established in 1947. He is the first Airman recognized with the medal for...
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Torch Athena is an Air Education and Training Command initiative to promote female empowerment across the MAJCOM. The mission is to “leverage education to enact change and develop empowered female Airmen.”
Tripler Army Medical Center nurses at work.
