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Article: For Today's Air Force, a New Symbol of Valor
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- The Washington Post
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- June 13, 2007
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In all the time she spent working on the nation's newest military
award, Arlington County artist Susan Gamble never actually saw it in
its most important setting: hanging from an airman's chest. That
changed yesterday.
"There was definitely a lump in the throat when he pinned it on
the first jacket," Susan said. Gen. T. Michael Moseley, the Air
Force chief of staff, had presented history's first Air Force Combat
Action Medals during a ceremony under the three twisting spires of
the Air Force Memorial.
That's a lot of "Air Forces" in one sentence, but yesterday was
all about that branch of the service and how it's changed. For
instance, these days it's not just pilots getting shot at.
"We ...