The Army has presented its Commendation Medal to SSgt. Benjamin Bomar, with the 375th Security Forces Squadron at Scott AFB, Ill., for his service in Iraq. Bomar, a military working dog handler, was the sole airman working with the 133rd Cavalry, 101st Airborne Division. (Read more here.)
A three-month continuing resolution that ended in December inflicted less pain on the Department of the Air Force than it had expected, as procurement and construction continue in the new year. The federal government operated under a stopgap spending measure that stretched from the beginning of the fiscal year on…