Air Force Cross, Silver Stars awarded
TSgt Matthew Greiner, left and SRA Goodie Goodman, right, received the Silver Star. SRA Dustin Temple received the Air Force Cross
Yesterday, the Air Force awarded an airman the rare Air Force Cross while two others will receive Silver Stars for valor during a firefight in late September 2014 in Afghanistan’s Helmand province.
On Sept. 27, 2014, a team of U.S. Special Operations troops was dropped into a volatile village in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. The U.S. military had withdrawn thousands of troops from the country in the previous year, and the mission called for 14 Americans and about 24 Afghan commando counterparts to clear a bazaar of weapons and insurgents, and then get out.
It turned into a fight for their lives, three U.S. Special Operations airmen involved in the battle recalled Tuesday. The insurgents, numbering close to 100, sprung a fierce attack in which they not only launched a barrage of fire on the Americans…..
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