The Air Force has created a special medal to “recognize the reality” that airmen are coming under enemy fire, particularly in nontraditional ways, says Lt. Gen. Roger Brady, USAF’s top personnel officer. The new award—the Air Force Combat Action Medal—will recognize airmen who have directly served in active combat, whether on the ground or in the air. Award of the medal, which will first appear in April, will start with a first-person account of combat action, and then proceed through the chain of command, reaching the commander of air force forces for final approval.
The Air Force has dispatched an element of its Natural Disaster Recovery Team to Guam in the wake of Super Typhoon Mawar, which has caused widespread damage on the island and at Andersen Air Force Base. The team will assess the damage and put together a recovery cost estimate for…