Intel Work Earns Bronze Star

The Bronze Star Medal was awarded to an Air Force intelligence officer whose work helped U.S. forces find and detain Iraqi insurgents. Capt. David Hearn, with the 50th Operations Support Squadron out of Colorado's Schriever Air Force Base, received the medal at a mid Oct. ceremony. Deployed to Iraq from May to November last year, Hearn helped gather and present intel to a Joint Special Operations Task Force. We would build a target package consisting of the target's known locations, his associates and meeting places, and then pass that on to Special Forces soldiers. Hearn said at the ceremony, according to a statement then they would track him down His work resulted in more than 750 targets, 350 successful missions and 1,800 intelligence packets. Some of his material was later used by the Iraqi judicial system to convict insurgents, the statement said.