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Dougal Brownlie, The Gazette
4,000 cadets stand to attention and listen as Capt. Brian Guyette, B-1 Lancer pilot and 2008 graduate, delivers a brief thank you speech after he received the Col. James Jabara Award for Airmanship at Arnold Hall at the US Air Force Academy during the noon meal on Friday, August 25, 2017 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Guyette flew combat missions over Iraq and Syria in 2015, eradicating Islamic State personnel and positions among his other achievements, from February to July 2015.Capt. Brian Guyette could have been disciplined for not wearing his seat belt.
Instead, the 2008 Air Force Academy graduate and B-1 bomber pilot received the academy’s top aviation trophy on Friday.
The Air Force hasn’t suddenly gone soft on its stringent safety rules. The service has found that the risk Guyette knowingly took was an act of battlefield bravery, earning him the school’s Jabara Award, given to graduates whose actions in the cockpit go above and beyond the call of duty. The award is named for Col. James Jabara, the first American jet ace and the second leading Air Force ace of the Korean War.
The captain is still a bit sheepish about it.
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