The Air Force has awarded Bronze Star Medals to Maj. Hamilton Dorsey and Maj. Johnathan Zulauf for their meritorious service while deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, respectively. Dorsey, assigned to the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center, deployed for a year to Baghdad, where he was key to arranging a $984 million foreign military sales arrangement that will deliver and sustain six C-130J transport aircraft for the Iraqi Air Force. Zulauf, with the 377th Air Base Wing command post at Kirtland, served as the deputy commander of the 855th Air Expeditionary Squadron at Camp Phoenix in Afghanistan and planned and executed more than 150 mounted combat patrols. (Kirtland photo release for Dorsey; Kirtland photo release for Zulauf)
Matthew Lohmeier, who was fired from a Space Force squadron command just two years ago, took another step in his unlikely journey to the Department of the Air Force's No. 2 job May 1, testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee that his background as an Air Force F-15C pilot…