Hurlburt spec ops awards March 2

Fourteen Air Commandos from the 1st Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, Fla., will be presented awards on March 2. The commander of Air Force Special Operations Command will preside over the event, and is scheduled to award two Airmen with Distinguished Flying Crosses and 12 Airmen with single event Air Medals. The medals are to be awarded in recognition of actions taken near Nangarhar Province in Afghanistan on April 3-4, 2019, on which they were crew members on an AC-130U “Spooky” gunship. During a 9-hour ordeal, the crew’s performance and battlefield coordination enabled the recovery of 15 patients following a mass-casualty event. (Source: 1st Special Operations Wing media notice 02/24/20)