SALT LAKE CITY — The commander of Hill Air Force Base on Tuesday gave the most detailed account yet of how the base’s personnel participated in Operation Epic Fury.
“We had one of our communications airmen,” Col. Dan Cornelius described in one vignette, “in the first two and a half months of his time for the deployment, sprinted – had to sprint – to a bunker like that over 150 times.”
Cornelius commands the 75th Airbase Wing – the unit that operates Hill. He spoke Tuesday at the state Capitol to a group of Utah legislators and other members of the Utah Veterans and Military Affairs Commission, disclosing to the public for the first time the extent of the base’s role in the Iran war…