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Derrill Lee of Edgewood graduated from Air Force basic training from Lackland Air Force Base. Lee is a 2012 graduate of Harford Tech.

Air Force Airman Ryan C. McCormack graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas. McCormack completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness and basic warfare principles and skills. Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force. McCormack earned distinction as an honor graduate.

A 24-year-old airman from Westminster was killed when an improvised explosive device hit his vehicle in Afghanistan, the Defense Department said Saturday. Airman 1st Class Matthew R. Seidler died Thursday in the attack, which killed two other airmen. They were patrolling in Helmand, a southwestern province that remains a Taliban stronghold. "When he joined the Air Force, he blossomed. He became himself," said a cousin, Kalyn Masek, who last communicated with Seidler on Tuesday, his birthday.

Airman Michael A. Heslin graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force. Heslin is the son of Karen Ryan and Robert Heslin, both of Fallston. He is a 2011 graduate of Fallston High School.

An Air Force member who was assigned to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland has died in Afghanistan, the Defense Department announced Monday. Airman 1st Class Jerome D. Miller Jr., 23, of Washington, died Oct. 13 in a non-combat-related incident in Parwan province, the Defense Department said. Miller was assigned to the 459th Security Forces Squadron at Joint Base Andrews in Prince George's County.

Airman Louis A. Dixon IV has graduated from Air Force basic trainingat Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.The airman is the son of EffieH. Dixon and grandson of the Rev. Ernest and Mary Johnson of Sykesville.AIRMAN LEVASSEUR COMPLETES TRAININGNavy Airman Cherish V. Levaseur, a 1989 graduate of Laurel High School, has completed the Basic Avionics Technician Course at the Naval Air Station Memphis, Millington, Tenn.

Navy Airman Apprentice Stephen Sweigart, son of Eugene and Kim Sweigart of Woodbine, recently received the Sea Strike Wing "Ace" award for superior performance of duty while assigned to Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron 6 at the Cecil Field, Fla., Naval Air Station.Airman Sweigart is a 1989 graduate of Glenelg High School.

BRIDGETOWN - A man killed early Sunday in a single-car accident on a Caroline County road has been identified by state police as an airman assigned to Dover Air Force Base, Del. The victim, 20-year-old Aaron Donta Paden, was northbound on Route 312 near Bridgetown about 1 a.m. when he lost control of his 1997 Nissan Sentra, left the road and struck several trees. Police said Paden died at the scene and that his passenger, Christina Johnson, 18, also of Dover, was injured and flown to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.

They called him "Boogie" Bourg because he loved to dance the Boogie Woogie. He married his high school sweetheart, joined the Air Force, and was stationed in Frankfurt, West Germany, in the late 1950s.With his wife pregnant with their second child, Mr. Bourg signed up for additional missions to earn extra money.He never returned from his first extra flight.On Sept. 2, 1958, a U.S. Air Force transport plane carrying Archie Bourg Jr., 21, of Baton Rouge, La., and 16 other servicemen was shot down by Soviet jet fighters over Soviet Armenia, near the Turkish border.

There was no enemy involvement in the air crash that killed an airman from Upper Marlboro in Africa over the weekend, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Senior Airman Julian S. Scholten, 26, was one of four special operations airmen killed Saturday when their single-engine U-28 turboprop crashed six miles from Djibouti-Ambouli International Airport, according to the U.S. Africa Command. "This is obviously a tragic incident," Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said Tuesday, according to the American Forces Press Service.

Derrill Lee of Edgewood graduated from Air Force basic training from Lackland Air Force Base. Lee is a 2012 graduate of Harford Tech.

WASHINGTON — Two service members were among the dozen moviegoers killed Friday in Aurora, Colo., military officials said. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jesse Childress, 29, of Thornton, Colo., and Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class John Larimer, 27, of Crystal Lake, Ill., died in the attack at the Century 16 movie theater. Both were stationed at Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora. Another sailor and another airman were wounded in the shootings at the premiere of "The Dark Knight Rises. " Both were treated and released.

There was no enemy involvement in the air crash that killed an airman from Upper Marlboro in Africa over the weekend, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Senior Airman Julian S. Scholten, 26, was one of four special operations airmen killed Saturday when their single-engine U-28 turboprop crashed six miles from Djibouti-Ambouli International Airport, according to the U.S. Africa Command. "This is obviously a tragic incident," Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said Tuesday, according to the American Forces Press Service.

Mourners of Airman 1st Class Matthew Ryan Seidler said the Westminster man had followed his dream of serving his country, found a band of brothers in the Air Force and died protecting his fellow soldiers in Afghanistan. "When we talked to him New Year's Day, it was the happiest that he had ever been in his life," his father, Marc Seidler, told the more than 500 mourners who filled the Sol Levinson & Bros. funeral home Tuesday in Pikesville. "He loved the Air Force. " Matthew Seidler, an explosive ordnance disposal apprentice, was killed Jan. 5 by a bomb in Helmand province.

TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - The court-martial of an airman accused of attempted espionage was delayed yesterday by what a defense attorney said was interference from the Justice Department and by a last-minute memorandum from a top defense official. The Air Force said the delay was caused by efforts to coordinate between agencies. "There's been no improper manipulation" by the Justice Department, and the Air Force still has final authority in deciding charges in a military court-martial, said Air Force Col. John Kellogg, deputy staff judge advocate for Travis.

WASHINGTON — Two service members were among the dozen moviegoers killed Friday in Aurora, Colo., military officials said. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jesse Childress, 29, of Thornton, Colo., and Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class John Larimer, 27, of Crystal Lake, Ill., died in the attack at the Century 16 movie theater. Both were stationed at Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora. Another sailor and another airman were wounded in the shootings at the premiere of "The Dark Knight Rises. " Both were treated and released.