The Air Force has awarded Special Agent Gregory Carmack the Bronze Star medal for valor 36 seconds of action that stopped a suicide car bomber in Iraq, reports the Honolulu Star Bulletin. Carmack, who now is assigned to the Office of Special Investigation at Hickam AFB, Hawaii, opened fire on a pickup truck that had run over an Iraqi policeman and was trying to intercept the convoy Carmack was leading. He fired 10 rounds; seven hit the truck, killing the driver.
As the Air Force readied for its June 21-22 strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, the service was also putting its Agile Combat Employment strategy into action, dispersing combat aircraft and Airmen from Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar in preparation for a possible Iranian retaliatory attack. Some defense experts say…
