The Air Force has awarded a bronze star medal to Lt. Col. Doug Melancon for his actions while deployed to Afghanistan to support the US Army’s 4th Brigade as an electronic warfare officer on Joint Task Force Paladin, reports the Weekly Citizen. Melancon currently serves at the Air Staff.
A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber flew from Europe across the Middle East to the Persian Gulf on July 25 in a 32-hour flight, as conflicts continued to roil the area with U.S. troops coming under attack in Iraq and Syria on July 25 and July 26, U.S. officials told…