Purple Heart
RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas - Senior Airman Erik Schadler, 21st Civil Engineer Squadron, receives the Purple Heart Medal and the Air Force Combat Action Medal from Gen. Edward Rice Jr., Air Education and Training Command commander, April 6 at Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio. Airman Schadler received the medals for wounds received in combat action against a hostile enemy force in Afghanistan. Airman Schadler is an explosive ordnance disposal specialist, and was wounded in action while taking part in Operation Enduring Freedom March 21 in Afghanistan. (U.S. Army photo/Russell Fritz)