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Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen.
Duncan J. McNabb presents Maj. Bradley Downs USAF with the Cheney Award in 2007
The Cheney Award is an aviation award presented by the United States Air Force in memory of 1st Lt. William Cheney, who was killed in an air collision over Italy in 1918. It was established in 1927, and is awarded to an airman for an act of valor, extreme fortitude or self-sacrifice in a humanitarian interest, performed in connection with aircraft, but not necessarily of a military nature.
[edit] Past winners
- 2007 Maj. Brad Downs and Maj Dan Roesch[1]
- 2004 Maj. John Groves[1]
- 2003 Randell Voas and Craig Prather
- 2002 Kevin Churchill and Sean LeRoy
- 2001 Tech. Sgt. Thomas Fields[2]
- 2000 Tech. Sgt. Jeanne M. Vogt (First enlisted female to ever receive the Cheney Award)
- 1975 Colonel (then-1LT) Regina Aune (first woman to win the Cheney trophy)
- 1968 Thomas Newman
- 1967 Duane Hackney
- 1965 Capt James A Darden,Jr and Capt Robert S Henderson
- 1962 Maj. Rudolph Anderson, Jr.
- 1956 Colonel Daniel J. Miller
- 1954 John Stapp
- 1950 Sgt. Paul Prosper Ramoneda
- 1948 Colonel Gail S. Halvorsen
- 1946 Sgt Larry Lambert - first live subject of a US ejector seat[3]
- 1929 William Albert Matheny[4]
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