By Bruce Rolfsen
- Staff writerPosted :
Friday Feb 27, 2009 17:02:02 EST
A combat controller is set to receive the Air Force Cross, the service’s second highest medal for valor, Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz announced Thursday at the Air Force Association’s winter conference.
Schwartz called Staff Sgt. Zachary Rhyner to stand at the beginning of his speech and detailed how the special operations airman called in air strike after air strike despite being wounded during a seven-hour battle in Afghanistan.
Rhyner, a special operations combat controller and joint terminal air controller assigned to the 21st Special Tactics Squadron at Pope Air Force Base, N.C., was part of an air assault on a high mountain valley in Afghanistan on April 6, 2008.
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SSgt Rhyner AFC Ceremony
On 10 March in Hanger 4 at Pope AFB, SSgt Rhyner, 21 STS, will receive the AF Cross.
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