OSI Agent receives Bronze Star for his deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom

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  • By Mr. James C. Dillard
  • AFOSI Public Affairs Office
MCB QUANTICO, Va. --  With friends, family members and fellow AFOSI agents present, Special Agent Frank McBride was awarded the Bronze Star Medal Nov. 22 in recognition of his hard work and dedication to the Operation Enduring Freedom mission - specifically for his part in the Afghanistan Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force operations.
Brig. Gen. Kevin Jacobsen, Air Force Office of Special Investigations commander, was present to pin the medal on SA McBride.
He addressed SA McBride's family directly during the ceremony.
"Your dad is a real American hero," he told them. "I just want you to know that."
SA McBride's role in intelligence gathering put him in some extremely dangerous situations, but if you ask him, he'll tell you that's just part of the job. When he spoke to the crowd, he told them that he was happy that everyone from his unit came home safe and that he was proud to be a part of the mission - protecting Allied forces deployed in harm's way.
The Bronze Star Medal is the fourth-highest combat award of the U.S. Armed Forces and the ninth highest military award (including both combat and non-combat awards) in the order of precedence of U.S. military decorations.
This decoration authorized by Executive Order No. 9419 on Feb. 4, 1944, is awarded a person in any branch of the military service who, while serving in any capacity with the Armed Forces, shall have distinguished himself by heroic or meritorious achievement or service, not involving participation in aerial flight, in connection with military operations against an armed enemy.
SA McBride is also the recipient of the Air Force Commendation Medal with two oak leaf clusters, the Joint Service Achievement Medal, the Air Force Achievement Medal with one silver oak leaf cluster and one oak leaf cluster and many others.
He has been an OSI member since 2006 and before that was an Air Force Security Forces member. He joined the Air Force straight out of high school in 1990.