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Members of the 88th Communications Group await the return of Senior Airman Tre Porfirio Feb. 18, 2010 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. About 300 of the “Combat Nerds” and other friends and community members greeted Porfirio during a welcome home ceremony. Porfirio was shot three times in the back by an insurgent Nov. 21, 2009 while deployed with an Army unit in a remote part of Afghanistan. He returned to a heroe’s welcome at Wright-Patt following a 3-month recovery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Airman Porfirio is a communications technician with the 88th Communications Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Ben Strasser)


'Combat Nerds' welcome home their hero

Members of the 88th Communications Group await the return of Senior Airman Tre Porfirio Feb. 18, 2010 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. About 300 of the “Combat Nerds” and other friends and community members greeted Porfirio during a welcome home ceremony. Porfirio was shot three times in the back by an insurgent Nov. 21, 2009 while deployed with an Army unit in a remote part of Afghanistan. He returned to a heroe’s welcome at Wright-Patt following a 3-month recovery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Airman Porfirio is a communications technician with the 88th Communications Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Ben Strasser)

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Dr. Adam Pilchak, a materials research engineer at the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, is the recipient of the 2017 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government to science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their career. (U.S. Air Force Photo)