Air Commando awarded Purple Heart
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- Staff Sgt. Travis Dalton, a combat controller with the 320th Special Tactics Squadron, shakes hands with Col. David Buldoc, Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Afghanistan commander, after receiving the Purple Heart at Craig Joint Theater Hospital here May 10. Sergeant Dalton was wounded in his right arm, hamstrings and buttocks May 8 when an improvised explosive device detonated near him during a dismounted combat patrol in Helmand Province in Afghanistan. (Courtesy photo)