The Air Force has awarded a bronze star medal to Lt. Col. Doug Melancon for his actions while deployed to Afghanistan to support the US Army’s 4th Brigade as an electronic warfare officer on Joint Task Force Paladin, reports the Weekly Citizen. Melancon currently serves at the Air Staff.
Happy Birthday US Air Force: 78 Today
Sept. 18, 2025
Seventy-eight years ago today, on Sept. 18, 1947, Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson swore in Stuart Symington as the first ever Secretary of the Air Force, and the Air Force officially became the first new military service since the Revolutionary War.