A former U.S. Air Force counterintelligence specialist who had defected to Iran severed as an airborne crypto linguist on board a RC-135 during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Military Times revealed.
U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Lance Cheung [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
She earned the Air Medal as a result. The citation says she had “distinguished herself by meritorious achievement while participating in sustained aerial flight from March 29 to April 18.”