The Air Force has awarded Bronze Star Medals for meritorious service to Lt. Col. Anthony Maisonet, TSgt. Nicole Davis, and TSgt. Dameon Jackson. Maisonet, commander of the 75th Security Forces Squadron at Hill AFB, Utah, led the standup of the largest contingent of security forces deployed to defend an air base in combat since the Vietnam War while deployed to Iraq. Davis, with Hill’s 75th Logistics Readiness Squadron, was a convoy commander and squad leader, serving with the US Army in Iraq. Jackson, with the 1st Special Operations LRS at Hurlburt Field, Fla., served as a convoy and detachment commander with the Army in Iraq, where his unit achieved a 99 percent vehicle readiness rate in delivering supplies to 23 forward bases. (Hill report by Lee Anne Hensley; Hurlburt report by A1C Joe McFadden)
Happy Birthday US Air Force: 78 Today
Sept. 18, 2025
Seventy-eight years ago today, on Sept. 18, 1947, Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson swore in Stuart Symington as the first ever Secretary of the Air Force, and the Air Force officially became the first new military service since the Revolutionary War.
