text: Cpl Kylo Gorman's medals for service in Afghanistan and at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee were taken from his car in Bolton-le-Sands on 4 or 5 January.
  He said he "wasn't that bothered at first", but the reaction online "got me thinking 'it is a really big deal'".
  Lancashire Police said they were investigating the theft.
  The Port Talbot-born 28-year-old, who has served five tours of Afghanistan, said he had left the medals in the car after removing them from a uniform he was having altered.
  "I didn't think twice about them. I'm based at RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire during the week and when I came home and the car had been broken into, I realised my medals had gone," he said.
  "I want my children to be able to look at their dad's medals and be proud of what I did," he added.
  Cpl Gorman, who has also served in the Falklands, Africa and Cyprus, has been in the RAF for 10 years and is due to leave the armed forces in April.
target: A RAF airman has made an appeal for the return of two stolen medals after hundreds shared his post about the theft on social media.