The Coast Guard’s top officer fielded questions about the service’s response to a report of decades of sexual assaults at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
Maj. Gen. Lorna Mahlock now leads a force she said is "competing daily against a threat that is very real, but which few can comprehend, quantify or see.”
The awards honor the airmen’s “highest-caliber bravery and tenacity” during the largest evacuation of noncombatants in Air Force history, the service said.