TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — The U.S. Air Force airman who was injured when he and two childhood friends tackled a heavily armed gunman on a Paris-bound train is on his way back to his native California.

Lt. Col. Robert Couse-Baker said Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone was scheduled to arrive at Travis Air ForceBase in Fairfield, California, on Thursday evening.

Stone has been undergoing medical treatment in Germany since he, National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and Sacramento college student Anthony Sadler subdued the gunman on a passenger train speeding through Belgium on Aug. 21.

Course-Baker says Stone's mother and brother are accompanying him on the Air Force jet that was enlisted to bring him back from Europe.

He says Stone will be taken immediately to the base hospital for evaluation and not be giving interviews.

Skarlatos and Sadler have already returned to the U.S.

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