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Air Force JTAC Awarded Second Silver Star

Master Sgt. Thomas Case, a tactical air control party airman, has joined the ranks of the military’s most decorated troops. Case, a TACP airman with the 18th Air Support Operations Group at Pope Field, N.C., was awarded the Silver Star an oak leaf cluster Thursday for an overnight battle in Afghanistan in 2009 when he…

Master Sgt. Thomas Case, a tactical air control party airman, has joined the ranks of the military’s most decorated troops.

Case, a TACP airman with the 18th Air Support Operations Group at Pope Field, N.C., was awarded the Silver Star an oak leaf cluster Thursday for an overnight battle in Afghanistan in 2009 when he was assigned to a group of Army Rangers in a notoriously dangerous part of Paktia province.

Case is the seventh U.S. military member since Sept. 11, 2001, to receive two Silver Stars. He is one of three airmen to be awarded twice, joining Tech. Sgt. Ismael Villegas and Staff Sgt. Sean Harvell. Case is the first TACP airman of the group. Villegas and Harvell are combat controllers.

Twelve troops across all services have been awarded multiple high valor awards in the past 13 years, excluding classified awards. Sixty-seven airmen have been presented Silver Stars for actions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

via TACP airman joins ranks of military’s most decorated.

 

They don’t just hand out Silver Stars like candy. MSGT  Case has been in the fight for over a decade, and twice, while serving alongside the Rangers, found himself in a position to save the day.

We love mocking the Air Force, but we also love recognizing that there are plenty of Airmen who epitomize the warrior ethos.

Well done, MSGT Case.

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  1. SFC Dunlap 173d RVN

    My compliments. We do so rib the USAF and it is correct that there are great personnel in that organization. My favorites are the CCT (Combat Controllers, SERE (Survival Escape guys), TACP’s, and PJ’s. Put them all together throughout the AC, Air Guard, and AF Reserve you might have 600 personnel…truly a small, squared away community.

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  2. NaCly Dog

    I count the USAF as one of the uniformed services when I rib them. However, there is a core of steely-eyed warriors worthy of emulation in there somewhere.

    BZ Master Sgt. Thomas Case.

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  3. Quartermaster

    There aren’t too many steely eyed warriors in the AF. It’s just the nature of the beast.

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