The name of SSgt. Andrew Brunn, an Air National Guardsman and New York City firefighter who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, was emblazoned with honor on the entryway of the Air Force’s Combined Air Operations Center in Qatar. The commemorization took place on Dec. 22. Brunn was a member of one of the first ladder companies to reach the World Trade Center. He and his team was trying to evacuate injured civilians when the building collapsed.
An important U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry AWACS command and control plane was among the aircraft damaged in a March 27 Iranian missile and drone attack on Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, people familiar with the matter told Air & Space Forces Magazine.