Team Bagram honors fallen Airmen

Members of Team Bagram honor Airmen who have fallen in support of Operation Enduring Freedom at Camp Cunningham on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, March 5, 2013. Camp Cunningham was named in honor of Senior Airman Jason Cunningham who was killed in action, March 4, 2002. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Chris Willis)

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Team Bagram honors fallen Airmen

Members of Team Bagram honor Airmen who have fallen in support of Operation Enduring Freedom at Camp Cunningham on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, March 5, 2013. Camp Cunningham was named in honor of Senior Airman Jason Cunningham who was killed in action, March 4, 2002. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Chris Willis)

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Team Bagram honors fallen Airmen

Members of Team Bagram honor Airmen who have fallen in support of Operation Enduring Freedom at Camp Cunningham on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, March 5, 2013. Camp Cunningham was named in honor of Senior Airman Jason Cunningham who was killed in action, March 4, 2002. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Chris Willis)

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Team Bagram honors fallen Airmen

Members of Team Bagram honor Airmen who have fallen in support of Operation Enduring Freedom at Camp Cunningham on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, March 5, 2013. Camp Cunningham was named in honor of Senior Airman Jason Cunningham who was killed in action, March 4, 2002. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Chris Willis)

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Team Bagram honors fallen Airmen

Senior Airman Jareth Jowe, 455th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, and Capt. Wayne Barnum, 466th Air Expeditionary Group executive officer, honor Airmen who have fallen in support of Operation Enduring Freedom at Camp Cunningham on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, March 5, 2013. Directly following the ceremony, the BAF members participated in group push-ups to honor teamwork and fellow comrades. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Chris Willis)

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Team Bagram honors fallen Airmen

Members of Team Bagram honor Airmen who have fallen in support of Operation Enduring Freedom at Camp Cunningham on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, March 5, 2013. Directly following the ceremony, the BAF members participated in group push-ups to honor teamwork and fellow comrades. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Chris Willis)

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Team Bagram honors fallen Airmen

Published March 5, 2013
By Senior Airman Chris Willis
455th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- The majority of the Airmen assigned to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, live on Camp Cunningham, a camp named after Pararescueman Senior Airman Jason D. Cunningham, who gave his life in Afghanistan while saving 10 lives and making it possible for seven others who were killed to come home.

He was posthumously awarded the Air Force Cross Sept. 13, 2002, which is awarded for extraordinary heroism while engaged in action against an enemy of our nation. It is second only to the Medal of Honor.