TSgt. Michael Soucy, an intelligence analyst with the 81st Training Wing, Keesler AFB, Miss., received a Bronze Star for his actions while deployed to Balad AB, Iraq, reports Amn. David Salanitri. Assigned to a US Army team, Soucy served as a tactical controller for unmanned aerial vehicles for a joint task force.
With the Air Force in the midst of its biggest testing boom in decades, the Maintenance Operational Test (MxOT) Division at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., is making sure those tests include an often-overlooked perspective: that of maintainers.