McChord Airman receives Purple Heart

Staff Sgt. David Kechter, 62nd Security Forces Squadron armory NCOIC, left, receives the Purple Heart from Col. Jeffrey Stephenson, 62nd Airlift Wing commander, during a ceremony at the armory here. Sergeant Kechter, a Strasburg, Colo., native, was wounded in November 2007 while conducting a combat patrol in Umm-Qasr, Iraq. At the time of his injury, he was serving as a gunner in a Humvee; his vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device. He returned from his deployment in May. (U.S. Air Force photo/Abner Guzman)

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