Minot Airman Receives Bronze Star

Dec. 22, 2009

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The Air Force has awarded a Bronze Star Medal to SrA. Gary Conlee with the 91st Security Support Squadron at Minot AFB, N.D., for his service while deployed to Afghanistan. He served there as a convoy technician working with the Afghan National Army during a year-long deployment. (Minot report by A1C Benjamin Stratton)

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