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12/12/2022

Commanding an Armored Cavalry Assault Vehicle, Sergeant Douglas Factora personally wiped out multiple enemy emplacements. He fired his machine gun and hurled gr***des from his hatch until an anti-tank rocket exploded next to him, launching him out of the vehicle. Factora ignored his wounds, climbed back into his hatch, and continued assaulting the enemy. Another enemy round burst on the vehicle, wounding everyone aboard and setting it on fire. Factora once again was critically wounded, and once again ignored this. He personally removed his fellow soldiers who were incapacitated from the burning wreck and brought them to medical aid. Factora was evacuated with them, but succumbed to his wounds on the way to the hospital. For his outstanding bravery, Factora was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.
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"...serving with Troop C, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, on 13 May 1968 while serving as an assault vehicle commander during an attack in the vicinity of Cu Chi. Directing suppressive fire with his vehicle's machine gun and hurling hand gr***des at the enemy, he was personally responsible for the elimination of several of the hostile emplacements. During the final stages of the assault, Sergeant Factora was seriously wounded and thrown from his vehicle when it was struck by an enemy rocket. Despite the intense pain of his wounds, he remounted the carrier, rallied his crew members, and continued his fierce assault upon the insurgents. Again Sergeant Factora's vehicle was hit by an antitank round, seriously wounding several of his crew members and causing the vehicle to burst into flames. Sergeant Factora removed his disabled comrades from the burning carrier. Only after he was assured that they had been treated and evacuated did he allow evacuation for himself. He died en route to the hospital. His fearless actions in the face of intense enemy fire were instrumental in the complete overpowering of the insurgent forces."

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12/12/2022

On July 24,2022, in Pelham, NH, Senior Airman Amy Granfield, a public health technician with the 157th Medical Group, was wake surfing on Long Pond when she was called to action.
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“My brother and I were wake surfing with two friends. One of my friends was surfing at the time. We stopped the boat, he climbed back in and that’s when everything happened.”
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A Jet Ski traveling at a high rate of speed crashed into the side of Granfield’s boat, knocking, her brother, and one friend overboard.
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“I didn’t see them coming until they were about five feet away,” she said. “My brother saw them from further away and he started screaming ‘Move the boat, move the boat!’ My brother and Eric barely jumped off, I was flung off the back and Joe ducked into the front.”
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The female operator of the jet ski and her passenger ended up in the water severely injured.
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“I heard Joe from the boat yell ‘is anyone dead?’ and that’s when the panic set in.”
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Granfield swam to the boat to find her brother John, Eric and Joe, all alive with minor injuries. Then she saw the girls in the water. One was floating in and out of consciousness and the other had severe injuries causing major blood loss.
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“I swam over as fast as I could and Eric helped me get her onto the swim platform. Her entire patella bone was exposed and she was losing so much blood. No one on the lake was carrying a tourniquet, so I told Eric to get me the ski rope and we tied it as tight as we could.”
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The team restarted the boat and drove the jet ski operator and passenger to the closest beach, where a police officer was waiting. Granfield and the officer applied a tourniquet and transferred the patient to the paramedics.
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For her quick thinking and actions, saving the life of the jet ski operator, Granfield received the Air Force Commendation Medal.

12/12/2022

PFC Leo Beaulieu carried his machine gun on patrol with is squad when they came under attack from 60 Viet Cong. A bullet struck his chest in the initial volley, knocking his gun out of his hands. In spite of the grievous wound, he crawled back to the gun and opened up on the ambushers. He remained exposed and poured fire into the enemy, holding them back until reinforcements arrived. He was shot two more times as he fired, with the 3rd hit mortally wounding him. For his outstanding heroism and dedication to protecting his squad, Beaulieu was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.
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"...serving as a machine gunner with Company E, Second Battalion, Fifth Marines, in action near Chu Lai, Republic of Vietnam, on 16 May 1966. Private Beaulieu's squad was engaged in search and destroy operations against Communist insurgent forces when it was ambushed by a Viet Cong force of sixty men. Heavy machine gun and automatic rifle fire from three sides pinned down the squad in an area offering little or no protection. Private Beaulieu was hit in the first volley of fire and knocked away from his machine gun. Although critically wounded in the chest, he crawled back to his gun and put it into action, delivering heavy, accurate fire on the enemy. He refused to take advantage of the limited cover available in order to bring punishing fire on the ambushing force, and as a result he was hit a second time as the machine gun malfunctioned. Still disregarding his own personal safety, he worked desperately to clear the weapon, and while doing so he received a third wound, which was fatal. Through his extraordinary initiative and inspiring valor in the face of almost certain death, he kept the enemy at a distance until reinforcements arrived, and enabled most of the members of his squad to be rescued."

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12/12/2022

On May 21, 2014, then-Technical Sergeant Kristopher Parker served as the EOD team leader supporting the 82nd Airborne and Afghan Border Police on a mission in the Afghan mountains. Parker's team of Airmen were tasked with finding a suspected IED manufacturing site. The mission turned into a 20-hour long firefight when insurgents holed up in a cave opened fire. Throughout the day, Parker returned fire, moved casualties to cover, and cleared areas of IEDs, allowing casualties to be evacuated. At one point, a nearby insurgent tossed a 20 pound IED at Parker. The explosion knocked him down with a concussion and destroyed his radio. Despite his injuries, Parker continued leading the efforts of his team to mark IED cache sites for air strikes, and helping care for a severely wounded Army platoon leader. For his role in the mission, helping ensure that everyone made it back alive, Parker was awarded the Silver Star.
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Parker remained in the Air Force and eventually retired as a Master Sergeant. During his career as an EOD tech, he deployed multiple times to Afghanistan and Iraq. He received the Silver Star in March 2017 after his retirement.

12/12/2022

In June 2011, Marine Corporal David Gerardi served in Afghanistan as a sniper with 3rd Recon Battalion. When part of his platoon was hit and pinned down in a canal, Gerardi and his team came to their aid. He moved away from his team to a better vantage point to bring his rifle to bear, despite being more exposed to enemy fire. From a mere 40 meters away, enemy fighters opened up on him with machine guns, RPGs, and a Russian-made gr***de launcher. He quickly located an enemy machine gunner and put him down with 3 rounds from his sniper rifle. The lull in enemy fire allowed the pinned down team to recover one casualty and provide first aid. After an airstrike still failed to silence the enemy position, Gerardi grabbed a rocket launcher and put a round through a hole in the wall where the enemy were shooting, killing those behind it. Later, when another enemy fighter in a tree line brought a separate Marine unit under fire, Gerardi found him in his scope and silenced the insurgent with a single shot.
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Shortly after returning home from the deployment, Gerardi left the Marines and transitioned to the Army National Guard's 19th Special Forces Group, serving as a Weapons Sergeant. In December 2012, the new Green Beret donned his dress blues once more when the Corps awarded him a Silver Star for his heroism the previous year in Afghanistan.

12/12/2022

Captain Ryan Schramel, the former commanding officer of Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, received a Bronze Star with "V" on May 16, 2013 for leading his company of Marines through multiple combat operations and engagements with insurgents in the Now Zad district of Helmand province, Afghanistan.
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During an operation dubbed Western Gambit, Schramel was directly responsible for the tactical employment of more than 350 Marines and Afghan soldiers and police through an insurgent infested area of the Now Zad district, resulting in the control of the area. The operation was planned as a helicopter-borne assault, but foul weather cancelled all air support and the Marines resorted to ground movements exposing themselves to the unfamiliar terrain in the insurgent infested area. As the weather worsened with rain and the terrain accumulated mud and flooding, Schramel and his Marines pushed on. They reached the village of Khurghay where they were met with heavy resistance from the enemy. Insurgents manned multiple heavy machine gun positions that briefly suppressed the Marines' mission. Undeterred from the weather elements and the enemy, Schramel rallied his Marines and maneuvered two of his platoons south of the village, encircling the enemy. He then directed a counterattack that crushed the entire enemy resistance in the area and controlled the village. The actions of the Marines and Afghan security forces resulted in the eventual establishment of an Afghan Uniformed Police post in Khurghay.

12/08/2022

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12/03/2022

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02/07/2015

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