The Air Force has awarded Special Agent Gregory Carmack the Bronze Star medal for valor 36 seconds of action that stopped a suicide car bomber in Iraq, reports the Honolulu Star Bulletin. Carmack, who now is assigned to the Office of Special Investigation at Hickam AFB, Hawaii, opened fire on a pickup truck that had run over an Iraqi policeman and was trying to intercept the convoy Carmack was leading. He fired 10 rounds; seven hit the truck, killing the driver.
Air Force Gen. Alexus G. Grynkewich assumed command of U.S. European Command on July 1, taking over the key assignment as the U.S. and its allies contend with a resurgent Russia and a grinding war in Ukraine.