Combatants in Camp Bastion battle in Afghanistan honored

U.S. Marines who battled insurgents during the attack on Camp Bastion in Afghanistan last year will be honored at the 42nd annual Marine Corps Aviation Association symposium and dinner, May 15-18 in Reno.

Maj. Robert “Troll” Weingart, an AH-1W Cobra pilot with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 469, won the Alfred A. Cunningham aviator of the year award.

Cpl. Benjamin Hebert, from the same squadron, won the Danny L. Radish enlisted aircrew man of the year award.

VMA-211 won the Lawson H. M. Sanderson Award for attack squadron of the year.

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