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  • Airman receives 2 Purple Hearts during 3-month span in Iraq

    02/01/2007 4:43:37 AM PST · by radar101 · 16 replies · 625+ views
    Orders and Medals ^ | January 19, 2007 | Staff Sgt. Susan Stout
    LUKE AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. - A Luke AFB sergeant was awarded two Purple Hearts for two separate injuries she received in a span of three months in Iraq. Staff Sgt. Aime Gaona, a 56th Operations Support Squadron intelligence analyst, was serving an eight-month deployment as a weapons intelligence team member of the 732nd Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron at Balad Air Base, Iraq. In October Sergeant Gaona's weapons intelligence team participated in a nine-vehicle operation whose mission was to bring down an improvised explosive device manufacturer and placer. Sergeant Gaona's humvee triggered a pressure switch on an IED that exploded...