The Air Force has presented medals to three Reserve airmen from the 92nd Aerial Port Squadron at Wyoming Valley, Pa., for their actions to help injured motorists in a 2005 car crash, reports SrA. Dan Lanphear. For pulling a motorist from a burning vehicle, TSgt. Mark Oeler received an Airman’s Medal. The other two airmen—TSgt. Sidney Litzelman and SSgt. Robert Evans, received Air Force Commendation Medals for their efforts at the accident site.
RTX’s Raytheon unit was able to “significantly” extend the range of the AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile using mostly software changes in experimental tests last year, expanding the reach and lethality of the standard U.S. dogfighting weapon, company officials said Sept. 15.
