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Hopes flew with lame jet

 
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Published: November 20, 2007

A four-star general pinned medals Monday on 12 airmen and nine civilians from Tinker Air Force Base for their role in salvaging a B-1B bomber after an engine fire left the jet crippled on an airstrip in Afghanistan.

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Gen. Bruce Carlson, commander of the Air Force Materiel Command, pins a medal on Staff Sgt. Jimmy Hardwick on Monday at Tinker Air Force Base. Hardwick was one of a dozen airmen and nine civilians to be awarded a medal for their part in repairing and flying a crippled B-1 bomber from Afghanistan to England, where it could be repaired. By Jim Beckel, The Oklahoman
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Twelve airmen and nine civilians were awarded for helping save a damaged B-1.

Air Medals

Presented to the following members of the 10th Flight Test Squadron:

•Lt. Col. Steven Adams

•Lt. Col. Jeffrey Wagner

•Maj. Erick S. Peterson

•Capt. James Couch

Air Force Achievement Medals

Presented to the following members of the 654th Combat Logistics Squadron:

•Tech Sgt. Albert R. Bryant

•Staff Sgt. Cody K. Danker

•Staff Sgt. Stephen R. Getten

•Staff Sgt. Jimmy P. Hardwick

•Staff Sgt. Jeremy T. Harper

•Staff Sgt. John B. Holliday

•Staff Sgt. Jeffrey J. Kinlaw

•Staff Sgt. Bradley M. Klepac

Civilian Achievement Medals

Presented to the following members of the 555th Aircraft Sustainment Squadron:

•Mark Drunkenmiller

•Robert Evans

•Jimmie Hopkins

•Albert Maeder III

•Barney Magerus

•Sammy Malone

•Mark Quinlan

•Kyle Schasteen

•Curtis Smith

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