Five Air Force Reserve Command airmen with the 908th Airlift Wing, Maxwell AFB, Ala., in December will get Army Commendation Medals for their service as vehicle operators in Iraq. They are: MSgt. Vera Berry, MSgt. George Campbell, TSgt. Cynthia Blais, TSgt. Steven Smith, and SSgt. John Traum. They were part of a 250-man company the Air Force put together to help the Army with truck convoy duty in the area around Balad.
In the small world of Air Force weather specialists, combat weather specialists are a niche unto themselves, deploying with Army ground units to provide forecasts and, if need be, fight alongside those Soldiers. For Staff Sgt. Francisco Estrada, the hardest part of the job isn’t the possibility of ground combat,…
