August 20, 2020
Warthog pilot receives 2020 Jabara Award
By Ray Bowden, Aug. 20, 2020 U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- This year’s Colonel James Jabara Award went to A-10C Thunderbolt II pilot Capt. Alexander Boules. Boules, a 2015 Academy graduate, deployed to Afghanistan in 2019 and took part in a heated nighttime airstrike to rescue Afghan special operators trapped by the Taliban. Boules flew into a battle zone peppered with flashes from rocket-propelled grenades fired by the Taliban. “When I tuned-in the Afghan team’s radio frequency, I heard frantic yelling,” he said. The summertime battle lasted more than five hours and along with Boules, involved another U.S. A-10C and two...
