The Air Force has awarded a Bronze Star Medal to TSgt. Timothy Haffner for actions during his six-month tour in Iraq. Haffner is an explosive ordnance disposal journeyman with Air Force Reserve Command’s 482nd Civil Engineer Squadron at Homestead ARB, Fla. He led an EOD team embedded with US and Iraqi Army units on a deployment that covered more than 140 combat missions, reports SrA. Erik Hofmeyer.
The Air Force’s nascent KC-Z program, aimed at developing a next-generation family of systems for aerial refueling, will look to launch its analysis-of-alternatives study in 2024, years earlier than originally planned. Originally, the analysis of alternatives for KC-Z was set for “maybe in the 2030s,” Paul Waugh, program executive officer…