The Air Force has awarded a Bronze Star Medal to TSgt. Timothy Haffner for actions during his six-month tour in Iraq. Haffner is an explosive ordnance disposal journeyman with Air Force Reserve Command’s 482nd Civil Engineer Squadron at Homestead ARB, Fla. He led an EOD team embedded with US and Iraqi Army units on a deployment that covered more than 140 combat missions, reports SrA. Erik Hofmeyer.
Denys Overholser, the Lockheed Martin engineer whose insights on the mathematics of radar cross section led directly to the first operational stealth attack airplane and permanently reshaped combat aircraft design and tactics, died April 28 at the age of 86.