A1C Stone Returns to Lajes Field
Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone, 65th Medical Operations Squadron ambulance service technician is greeted by Lt. Col. Richard Smith, 65th Air Base Group Medical Operations and Support Squadron commander, and Staff Sgt. Sarah Thomas, 65th Medical Group medical technician, at Lajes Field. Azores Sept 22, 2015. Stone, along with childhood friends Aleksander Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler, was recently honored by U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House for subduing an armed gunman when he entered their train carrying an assault rifle, a handgun and a box cutter. Stone is returning to his home unit for the first time in nearly a month after receiving medical care and traveling throughout the U.S. after the Paris train attack incident. (U.S Air Force photo/1st Lt. Alexandra Trobe).