AIR FORCE COMBAT HEROES IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN

STAFF SERGEANT NICK BRADLEY – IRAQ, 332ND EXPEDITIONARY SECURITY FORCES Staff Sergeant Nick Bradley deployed to Balad AB, Iraq, where he served with the 332nd Expeditionary Security Forces.  He flew more than 200 drone Surveillance Missions for troops outside the wire.  In April 2008, Bradley deployed to Camp Eggers, Kabul, Afghanistan, where he served on a Personal Security Detail for General Officers.  Life changed on August 3, 2008, while on a Protective Services Mission, he was injured when his vehicle was struck by 20 pounds of anti-tank mine IED. STAFF SERGEANT ANDREW KUBICK – AFGHANISTAN, 23RD SPECIAL TACTICS SQUADRON The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918 (amended by an act of July 25, 1963), takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Staff Sergeant Andrew D. Kubik, United States Air Force, for gallantry in connection with military operations against an armed enemy of the United States while serving with the 23d Special Tactics Squadron near Tactaplo, Afghanistan, on 23 November 2001.