SrA. Jonathan L. Calhoun and A1C Erik F. Munana of the 898th Munitions Maintenance Squadron each have received an Airman’s Medal for voluntarily risking their lives on July 2, 2004, to aid a 3-year-old child and her disabled mother from an apartment complex fire in in an Albuquerque, N.M. The airmen were heading back to work after lunch off base, when they saw the fire. They entered the burning building with a local firefighter. Calhoun found the child, and Munana brought out the mother. They stayed to help rescue other people after the Albuquerque Fire Department released other first responders.
The top Air Force commander on on the Japanese island of Okinawa has clamped down alcohol and issued a curfew for junior enlisted Airmen and Guardians at Kadena Air Base for the next month. The order came roughly two weeks after a U.S. Marine was arrested for allegedly robbing and…