CPL Isaac Jensen West Point City, UT Mission Accomplished on Aug. 11, 2012 On Nov. 9, 2008, Army Corporal Isaac Jensen, a combat medic on his first military deployment, lost both of his legs and sustained a severe arm injury including irreversible nerve damage to his left arm, when two one-hundred pound bombs detonated within close range in Malalah, Iraq. While searching an Iraqi home with two other Soldiers, one of them opened the refrigerator door triggering the blast which…
HM2 Derek McGinnis Middleton, ID Derek McGinnis enlisted in the Navy in 1996 in search of adventure, independence, and to be of service to his country. On November 9, 2004, Hospital Corpsman Second Class McGinnis was serving with the 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division in Fallujah, Iraq, when a suicide car-bomber struck his ambulance. He suffered a left leg amputation above the knee, shrapnel wounds to his right eye, causing loss of vision, a collapsed lung, and…
SGT Marcus Hayward Lake Worth, FL Mission Accomplished on Saturday, September 28, 2024 Marcus Hayward joined the military after realizing college wasn’t the right fit for him, and it ended up being one of the best decisions of his life. He enlisted as a specialized search dog handler with the 385th Military Police Battalion. On July 29, 2010, during his third combat deployment, Sergeant Hayward was supporting the 3rd Special Forces Group in Khakrez, Afghanistan, when his ATV struck a…
…search for weapon caches in identified homes required many elements of LCpl Oritz’s team to ensure the weapons had been identified and destroyed. After the Mine Sweeper and Engineer identified the IED’s in the booby-trapped house, one team pulled security while another began inventorying the cache. As LCpl Ortiz prepared to take pictures of the cache prior to its destruction, and while walking back into the house with his camera, he stepped on a pressure plate that ignited an IED…
Capt Anthony Simone Manhattan, IL Mission Accomplished on May 14, 2016 Air Force Captain Anthony Simone graduated from Embry Riddle University before enlisting in the Air Force, and then going to Officer Training School (OTS) and flight school. He flew HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters, designed for Combat Search and Rescue. On June 9, 2010, Capt Simone was the co-pilot of a helicopter with the 66th Rescue Squadron on a mission to pick up several wounded British Soldiers when the helicopter…
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