Story by Maj. Hector Infante | U.S. Marine Corps Training and Education Command | 09.25.2024
Staff Sgt. Brett Meil received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for exceptional bravery and composure during a training incident with a live fragmentation grenade....
Story by Senior Airman Max J. Daigle | 27th Special Operations Wing | 12.10.2020
SecAF Presents Air Force Cross to Special Tactics Airman.
Story by Senior Airman Collette Brooks | 49th Wing | 10.30.2020
Maj. Chad Swinehart, 6th Attack Squadron director of operations, was presented the Bronze Star Medal here, Oct. 26, for his meritorious achievement while deployed to Southwest Asia. The Bronze Star Medal is awarded to members of the U.S. Armed Forces for either heroic achievement, heroic service, meritorious achievement or meritorious service in a combat zone....
Courtesy Story | 155th Air Refueling Wing, Nebraska Air National Guard | 10.18.2020
LINCOLN, Neb. (Oct 17, 2020) – Senior Master Sgt. Sarah Bredthauer, base facilities manager, 155th Civil Engineer Squadron, was awarded the Bronze Star Medal in front of her peers during a ceremony, Oct. 17, 2020, at the Nebraska National Guard air base in Lincoln, Nebraska. Bredthauer was nominated for the award for her actions while deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operations......
Story by Senior Master Sgt. Shannon Nielsen | 155th Air Refueling Wing, Nebraska Air National Guard | 10.17.2020
LINCOLN, Neb. (Oct 17, 2020) - Senior Master Sgt. James Daberkow, first sergeant for the Nebraska Air National Guard’s Lincoln-based 155th Logistics Readiness Squadron was presented with a Bronze Star Medal for the service he provided during a deployment to Iraq from April 4 to Oct. 7, 2019. The Bronze Star Medal is awarded to members of the United States Armed Forces for either......
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Mat Murch | Naval Special Warfare Group TWO | 10.07.2020
An East-coast based Naval Special Warfare Operator (SEAL) was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, the highest non-combat decoration awarded for heroism by the Department of Defense in a small ceremony, Sept. 22....
Story by Tech. Sgt. Lealan Buehrer | 182nd Airlift Wing | 09.30.2020
No matter whether they were in Illinois, Wisconsin, or anywhere in between, Annie and Rich would see contrails in the sky from a jet plane flying high overhead, and their mother would remind them, “There’s Dad flying up in heaven. Dad’s watching.” Ann J. Ward was just 2.5 years old and Richard L. Ward II only 3 months old when their father perished in an F-84D Thunderstreak crash on......
Courtesy Story | 116th Air Control Wing | 09.13.2020
U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Franklin Wetmore, a radio frequency transmission systems craftsman with the 202d Engineering Installation Squadron, 116th Air Control Wing, Georgia Air National Guard, was awarded the Purple Heart medal on Sep. 13, 2020, during a ceremony at the Museum of Aviation outside Robins Air Force Base. On Dec. 11, 2019, while Wetmore and his team were awaiting airlift to......
