Two Hurlburt Field, Fla. airmen from the 1st Special Operations Civil Engineer Squadron’s explosive ordnance disposal flight received Bronze Stars last week for their work as team leaders while deployed to Iraq earlier this year. TSgt. Angela Shepherd reports that MSgt. Harold Seiple’s team recovered and destroyed more than 20,000 pounds of enemy ordnance and bulk explosives. SSgt. Jeremy Gibson led a team that dealt with improved explosive devices, completing 138 post-blast analyses and played a crucial role in capturing an enemy weapons cache containing 1, 324 ordnance items.
The Defense Logistics Agency is monitoring the military’s fuel inventory levels as a major cyberattack has halted operations of a large-scale fuel pipeline on the nation’s East Coast. Colonial Pipeline, which delivers about 45 percent of gasoline and jet fuel on the East Coast, stopped operations because of a ransomware…