Airman on Paris-bound train could get Air Force medal

The Air Force has previously deployed the jets in Japan and South Korea.

Anti-terror investigators are questioning the alleged attacker, 25-year-old Ayoub El Khazzani, who authorities said boarded the train with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, an automatic pistol, ammunition and a box cutter.

The Airman’s Medal is the service’s highest non-combat award, and is ranked above the Purple Heart. “And believe it or not, that is what Airman Stone’s friends nicknamed him during Air Force technical training”.

Their fearlessness, courage and selflessness should inspire all of us.

“Alek Skarlatos, Mr. Anthony Sadler and British businessman Mr. Chris Norman leapt into action, subdued the gunman and they saved lives”, James said.

“Had it not been for this heroic quartet I’m quite sure we would be sitting here Monday discussing a bloodbath”, James said.

Air Force Chief of Staff General Mark Welsh James stated the F-22’s inaugural coaching deployment in Europe would permit D.R. forces to practice with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation companions throughout Europe, testing the power of the jets to talk and struggle along with the Eurofighter, and different superior warplanes. They have been used in US-led coalition strikes on the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.

He said officials would look at the precedent set by the 2009 shooting at Fort Hood. Nidal Malik Hasan, a military psychiatrist, fatally shot 13 people and injured 31 others.

Stone could also be considered for the Purple Heart award, if the thwarted train attack is characterized by French law enforcement as a terror-related event.

“Airman Stone and his friends personified service before self, no question about it”, she said.