On January 2014 , General William L. Shelton , USAF ordered the renaming of the Space Badge to Space Operations Badge and changed the rules associated with how Airman military.military_service eligible to earn the badge .

On 28 September 2005 , SGT Steve Morin Jr. assigned to the 111th Engineer Battalion and Air Force Airman military.military_service Class Elizabeth N. Jacobson assigned to the 17th Security Forces Squadron stationed at Camp Bucca were killed in action when an improvised explosive device detonated near their convoy vehicle near the Iraqi town of Safwan .

The Airman military.military_service Creed was introduced in 2007 by General T. Michael Moseley , Chief of Staff of the US Air Force , the ' .