Capt. Robert Wray, 21st Space Wing commander’s action group, was presented the Air Force Commendation Medal July 16 here for off-duty actions where he crawled through glass to evacuate three people from an overturned smoking vehicle.
On March 3, 2013, at approximately 1:30 p.m., Wray and two other Civil Air Patrol members were traveling north on I-25 to Centennial, Colorado, when a sport-utility vehicle drifted off the road headed south. It hit an embankment and flipped end over end one-and-a-half times, finally coming to a rest on its roof. The three occupants of the vehicle were coming from Northern Colorado carrying camping equipment, which was violently thrown around and outside the vehicle.
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