Recently, an AF NCO was awarded the Bronze Star for executing operational funds, training funding teams and other such things:
(http://forums.flightinfo.com/showthread.php?t=147689)
The US Army has awarded the DFC to Sgt Julia Bringlow for actions I consider a bit more heroic and demanding.
http://www.businessinsider.com/this...ldiers-during-a-deadly-60-hour-mission-2012-5
Thank God for FlatIron!
(http://forums.flightinfo.com/showthread.php?t=147689)
The US Army has awarded the DFC to Sgt Julia Bringlow for actions I consider a bit more heroic and demanding.
http://www.businessinsider.com/this...ldiers-during-a-deadly-60-hour-mission-2012-5
Thank God for FlatIron!
As the hoist pulled them up, the cable swung Bringloe and her patient straight into a nearby tree where she swung her body around to protect his, breaking her leg.
“In some of the write-ups I’ve seen you would think my leg was dangling off of (my torso),” Bringloe told Paul Ghiringhelli at the Fort Drum paper. “But really it was just a small fracture.”
Back at base when Bringloe brought the wounded to the infirmary, one of her pilots, Chief Warrant Officer Erik Sabiston noticed her leg, and asked her if she needed to quit.
Bringloe said it wasn't an option. “I was the only medic in the valley and it was a huge mission,” she told The Daily.
She might have been relieved with that injury, but chose to go on. That, IMHO, is what makes a hero, a hero.
Kudo's to the entire crew. The story is a good read.
