The Outstanding Airman Badge is a decoration of the United States Air Force and part of the 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year program jointly run by the US Air Force and Air Force Association.
The 12 Outstanding Airmen wear the Outstanding Airman badge for one year and are permanently awarded the Outstanding Airman ribbon with the bronze service star device. They also serve on the Air Force Enlisted Council for one year.
Famous quotes containing the words outstanding, airman and/or badge:
“Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)
“The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“It would much conduce to the public benefit, if, instead of discouraging free-thinking, there was erected in the midst of this free country a dianoetic academy, or seminary for free-thinkers, provided with retired chambers, and galleries, and shady walks and groves, where, after seven years spent in silence and meditation, a man might commence a genuine free-thinker, and from that time forward, have license to think what he pleased, and a badge to distinguish him from counterfeits.”
—George Berkeley (1685–1753)