…. of how this Green Beret medic earned the Medal of Honor.
"The men of Operational Detachment-Alpha 3336 knew it was going to be a harrowing day before they ever set foot in the Shok Valley on April 6, 2008, on a mission in Afghanistan's remote, and at times impenetrable, Nuristan province to capture a high-value target with the Hezebela Islami Gulbadin insurgent group.
It was cold, there was snow on the ground, the drop zone was a raging river, and as the helicopter sliced through cloud cover, it became clear to the Green Berets that there were more threats in the mountains above than they had accounted for.
"There were hundreds and hundreds more compounds than we were able to see from our imagery," Lt. Col. Kyle Walton, then a captain and the ODA commander, told Army Times in a Sunday interview…."
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