Minot Airmen receive Air Force Combat Action Medal

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. -- Maj. Gen. Roger W. Burg, 20th Air Force commander, presents Staff Sgt. Gabriel T. Masterson, 791st Missile Security Forces Squadron support flight chief, with the Air Force Combat Action Medal here Jan 12. General Burg was here for a wing visit and to support an orientation visit of Senate staff members from states involved with ICBM bases. Sergeant Masterson received the medal when he was deployed to Balad Air Base, Iraq, attached to Task Force 1041 as a turret gunner on an offensive patrol off base. His patrol was ambushed by two improvised explosive device attacks within four hours where he successfully defended against hostile enemy forces. The principal eligibility criterion to receive the medal is that the individual must have been under direct and hostile fire while operating in unsecured space (outside the defended perimeter), or physically engaging hostile forces with direct and lethal fire. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jesse Lopez)

Minot Airmen receive Air Force Combat Action Medal

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. -- Col. Douglas Cox, 5th Bomb Wing Commander, presents Tech. Sgt. John A. Marshall, 5th Medical Operations Squadron personnel reliability program flight management noncommissioned officer-in-charge, with the Air Force Combat Action Medal here Jan 6. Sergeant Marshall received the medal when he was deployed to Kandahar, Afghanistan, attached to a NATO combat battalion as the only medic where he engaged hostile enemy forces and helped to treat wounded troops as well as returned fire. The principal eligibility criterion to receive the medal is that the individual must have been under direct and hostile fire while operating in unsecured space (outside the defended perimeter), or physically engaging hostile forces with direct and lethal fire. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jesse Lopez)

Minot Airmen receive Air Force Combat Action Medal

Published Jan. 13, 2010
Minot Air Force Base Public Affairs

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. -- Maj. Gen. Roger W. Burg, 20th Air Force commander, and Col. Douglas A. Cox, 5th Bomb Wing commander, presented two Minot Airmen with the Air Force Combat Action Medal here Jan. 6 and 12. General Burg was here for a wing visit and to support an orientation visit of Senate staff members from states involved with ICBM bases and their missions.