On Dec. 3, airmen of the 27th Special Operations Civil Engineering Squadron at Cannon AFB, N.M., dedicated a memorial to Capt. Kermit Evans Sr., who died last year in a helicopter crash in Iraq. Evans was a member of the unit’s explosive ordnance disposal team. His wife and young son attended the ceremony. (Report by Amn. Elliott Sprehe)
The U.S. began extensive air and artillery strikes against Islamic State group targets in Syria on Dec. 19 in retaliation for the killing of three Americans on Dec. 13 by a gunman affiliated with ISIS, U.S. officials said.
