The Air Force has awarded a Bronze Star Medal to TSgt. Timothy Haffner for actions during his six-month tour in Iraq. Haffner is an explosive ordnance disposal journeyman with Air Force Reserve Command’s 482nd Civil Engineer Squadron at Homestead ARB, Fla. He led an EOD team embedded with US and Iraqi Army units on a deployment that covered more than 140 combat missions, reports SrA. Erik Hofmeyer.
A provision in the fiscal 2025 defense policy bill will require the Defense Department to include the military occupational specialty of service members who die by suicide in its annual report on suicide deaths, though it remains to be seen how much data the department will actually disclose.