The Air Force has awarded a bronze star medal to Lt. Col. Doug Melancon for his actions while deployed to Afghanistan to support the US Army’s 4th Brigade as an electronic warfare officer on Joint Task Force Paladin, reports the Weekly Citizen. Melancon currently serves at the Air Staff.
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…