Combat Medal Awarded for Frenzied Iraq Battle

Staff Sgt. Jarion Halbisengibbs

From The Washington Post:

Staff Sgt. Jarion Halbisengibbs remembers Sept. 10, 2007, as the night "everything went wrong."

Assaulting from a helicopter onto a cluster of farm houses outside Samarra, Iraq, at 2 a.m., his team of Army Green Berets and Iraqi police were set down unexpectedly in the open, blinded by dust, and immediately came under heavy machine gun fire from the bodyguards of a top insurgent commander.

But within half an hour, 12 insurgents lay dead -- six of them killed by Halbisengibbs, whose quick-thinking and bravery in close-quarters combat also saved the lives of two of his American comrades.

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My Comment: A true definition of courage.

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