Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone will be nominated for the Air Force's highest non-combat award for his actions to subdue a gunman aboard an Amsterdam-to-Paris train, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James announced on Monday.
"Last Friday, as you know, evil arrived in the form of a heavily armed gunman on a high speed passenger train in Europe," James told reporters at the semiannual State of the Air Force briefing. "A gunman who brandished an AK-47, hundreds of bullets, a Luger pistol and a box cutter.
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