How NOT To Welcome A Green Beret
It’s not hard to go through life thinking you’ve got all the answers and that you’re the shiznittle. When the worst you’ve come up against is a coyote trying to eat your goat, you tend to get cocky. Then, along come the Green Berets to show what real men look like:
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.
For his “exceptional gallantry under intense enemy fire,” according to an official narrative, the Army awarded Halbisengibbs the Distinguished Service Cross, the Army’s second highest combat medal, in a ceremony at Fort Carson, Colo., on Thursday.
Read the rest of Ann Scott Tyson’s story HERE.
Angelia
May 16th, 2009 at 12:10 amI am so humbled that there are men and women of this caliber who wear the uniforms of this great nation and willing to fight for the freedoms I admittedly often take for granted. In my eyes anyone who wears the uniform today is a hero, a patriot, and my family.
He deserves the Medal of Honor.
~~Army Mom~~