After 24 Years, Declassified Delta Rescue Mission Awards USAF Doctor a Bronze Star for Valor

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Saw this over at This Ain't Hell today. During Col. (Dr.) James Ruffer’s 30 years of service, he wore three uniforms — of the Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force. He said he will always be a Marine, but recently he was awarded the Bronze Star with Valor for a mission working as an Air Force doctor helping to care for and rescue an American prisoner of Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega. The 1989 mission was recently declassified... Go read the whole thing here. Here's the USAF's broadcast about Colonel (ret) Ruffer.

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Posted Oct 01 2013, 01:28 AM by BLACKFIVE