Purple Heart recipients
ALTUS AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. (AETCNS) -- Col. Carlton D. Everhart II, 97th Air Mobility Wing commander, welcomes home three members of the 97th Security Forces Squadron arriving here Oct. 6 from a deployment. Airman 1st Class David Randolph, Airman 1st Class Hector Davalos and Staff Sgt. John Miller received Purple Hearts after surviving an explosion when their vehicle detonated a hidden land mine in Mosul, Iraq, on June 22. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kristi Machado)