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  • Combat controllers recognized for heroic actions

    02/11/2010 3:17:14 PM PST · by SandRat · 9 replies · 383+ views
    Air Force News ^ | Buffy Galbraith
    2/11/2010 - HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. (AFNS) -- Nine 23rd Special Tactics Squadron combat controllers here were awarded 12 medals during a ceremony at Fresques Auditorium inside the Special Tactics Training Squadron here Feb. 5. A standing-room-only crowd was on-hand to witness the presentation of 10 Bronze Star medals, one with Valor, and three Air Force Combat Action medals by the commander of Air Force Special Operations Command, Lt. Gen. Donald C. Wurster. "Today is a day to recognize the heroes among us, and I am here to tell you that you are making a difference," said General Wurster. "I am...
  • Jessica Lynch Book Fails to Excite on First Day

    11/11/2003 5:12:41 PM PST · by Pharmboy · 465 replies · 191+ views
    Reuters to My Yahoo! ^ | 11-11-03 | Ellen Wulfhorst
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Despite a media blitz, the biography of America's best-known soldier from the Iraq (news - web sites) war, Jessica Lynch, appeared unlikely on Tuesday to translate into big cash as the first day of sales fell short of expectations. After days of magazine covers, TV movies, tabloid tales and television interviews, first-day sales of her authorized biography, "I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story," fell well short of other high-profile books like Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites)'s memoir, which had buyers lining up around the block. Not a copy had been...