Five airmen have received Combat Action Medals after their C-130 cargo plane narrowly avoided being hit by a rocket-propelled grenade fired by militants last fall, the Air Force said.

The insurgents fired the round at the C-130J Super Hercules from the 39th Airlift Squadron, based out of Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, and deployed with the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, after it completed an emergency nighttime airdrop to Afghan troops in September, a May statement said.

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