AF Air Combat Controllers Awarded Medals
04-29-2010, 08:58 PM
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AF Air Combat Controllers Awarded Medals
From Seattle Times:
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD — Three years ago, Sgt. Sean Harvell drove into a Taliban ambush in a southern Afghanistan village. He was knocked unconscious by shrapnel but eventually revived.
Bleeding from numerous wounds, he fired back at the enemy with his M-4 carbine while directing airstrikes that came perilously close to his own position.
"I just came to, and tried to gather my faculties as much as I could," Harvell said. "You can't call a time out."
Harvell is a combat air controller, a member of an elite Air Force group joining U.S. special-operations ground forces on extended missions.
Local News | Elite Air Force fighters awarded medals | Seattle Times Newspaper
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD — Three years ago, Sgt. Sean Harvell drove into a Taliban ambush in a southern Afghanistan village. He was knocked unconscious by shrapnel but eventually revived.
Bleeding from numerous wounds, he fired back at the enemy with his M-4 carbine while directing airstrikes that came perilously close to his own position.
"I just came to, and tried to gather my faculties as much as I could," Harvell said. "You can't call a time out."
Harvell is a combat air controller, a member of an elite Air Force group joining U.S. special-operations ground forces on extended missions.
Local News | Elite Air Force fighters awarded medals | Seattle Times Newspaper
04-30-2010, 07:31 AM
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Some young kids doing a tough job.
I had a USAF JTAC I was working with just after New Years killed right undernieth me, I'll probably remember that kid for the rest of my life (along with a couple of others). Was only an E-3
I had a USAF JTAC I was working with just after New Years killed right undernieth me, I'll probably remember that kid for the rest of my life (along with a couple of others). Was only an E-3
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