ST,PAUL, Minn. – A Minnesota Air National Guard flight nurse has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, the nation’s highest recognition for aerial achievement, In August 2021 Major Katie Lunning led a team that evacuated 22 patients who were critically injured by a suicide bomb at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan. All the injured survived the eight-hour flight to Germany. The citation noted that hadn’t slept for 50 hours before the flight.
Lunning. And her C-17. First Air Guard flight nurse to receive the honor. From Hastings.