Four airmen from the 66th Security Forces Squadron at Hanscom AFB, Mass., recently received medals for their service in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Maj. Michael Gimbrone, MSgt. Jody Laffon, SSgt. Jason Lussier, and SSgt. Theodore Yost II were all honored for their work while deployed to an Army base outside Mosul, Iraq, where they performed base security for a rotated Army unit, reports the Lexington Minuteman. Gimbrone received the Bronze Star; Laffon the Meritorious Service Medal; and Lussier and Yost each received Army Commendation Medals.
The Pentagon’s new counter-drone task force will play a direct role in arming Airmen with new weapons to defend Air Force agile combat employment, or ACE, air bases in austere locations against enemy drone attacks, the director of Joint Interagency Task Force 401 said Oct. 14.
