He then knocked on the door without announcing himself ... with the 4th Special Operations Squadron, the Air Force said, including as a gunner on the AC-130J, a workhorse aircraft in Special ...

It was January 1944, and the tail section of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber nicknamed “Skippy” where Raley was positioned as a tail gunner had ... Fifteenth Air Force, which deployed 21 ...

He flew more than 2,000 hours as a door gunner aboard the mighty HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter. During his 20-year Air Force tenure, Brian gained experience as an ordnance loader, helicopter door ...