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By Dan Samaria Publisher/GCC September 11, 2009 Editor’s Note: Home State: South Dakota Awarded: Bronze Star Major Sheffield Ford III was leading a U.S. Army Special Forces unit in Afghanistan in June 2006 when Taliban fighters overwhelmed their position. The 16 Americans and 46 Afghan Army soldiers under Ford’s command, working to re-establish order in [...]
by Dan Samaria Publisher/GCC November 15, 2009 Editor’s Note: Home State: South Dakota Awarded: Bronze Star We would like to know what you think. dan@goldcoastchronicle.com Then-1st Lt. Arends and his team of 30 soldiers operated in and around Baghdad from February 2004 to April 2005. They were responsible for catching a number of terrorists, including [...]
by Dan Samaria Publisher/GCC November 5, 2009 Editor’s Note: Home State: Albuquerque, NM Awarded: Silver Star We would like to know what you think. dan@goldcoastchronicle.com Army Sgt. 1st Class James Brasher’s “daring acts of intrepidity and gallantry in the face of a numerically superior and determined force,” have earned him a Silver Star according to [...]
By Brian J Arthurs Investor’s Business Daily October 26, 2009 Editor’s Note: We would like to know what you think. dan@goldcoastchronicle.com Challenges hit the Marines ahead of the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Many, like Brian Kennedy, had just traveled from Camp Lejeune, N.C., to Kuwait. In his case, he had gone by sea [...]
By David Hogberg Investor’s Business Daily October 23, 2009 Editor’s Note: We would like to know what you think. dan@goldcoastchronicle.com Army Pfc. David Hutchinson landed in Afghanistan on May 16, 2008. It would be a short deployment. On his fifth day a grenade wounded him — but not before he killed five terrorists and helped [...]
by Dan Samaria Publisher/GCC October 15, 2009 Editor’s Note: Home State: Wyoming Awarded: Bronze Star. We would like to know what you think. dan@goldcoastchronicle.com Pfc. Arellano was deployed to Iraq in November 2005 with the 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Division. While on a foot patrol south of Baghdad on Aug. 17, 2006, Arellano encountered insurgents [...]
by Dan Samaria Publisher/GCC October 8, 2009 Editor’s Note: Hometown: Tucson, AZ Awarded:Soldier’s Medal Spc. Lemme and other soldiers were on a mission outside of Baghdad in October 2004 when a radio message alerted them that a tank had overturned into a canal. Lemme and three others went to investigate. They found an Abrams tank [...]
by Dan Samaria Publisher/GCC Sept. 30, 2009 Editor’s Note: Hometown: Washington D.C. Awarded: Silver Star Insurgents had a relatively free run of Fallujah the six months preceding November 2004. With little or no Coalition presence in the city, they had turned the urban landscape into a warren – like maze of fortified positions, booby traps, [...]
by Dan Samaria Publisher/GCC Sept. 25, 2009 Editor’s Note: Hometown: Atlanta, GA Awarded: Bronze Star When Lisa L. Carter was an Atlanta postal worker caring for her two-year-old daughter, she had a strong feeling she was capable of more. Little did she know that, almost two decades later, she would be in command of more [...]
by Dan Samaria Publisher/GCC Sept. 14, 2009 Editor’s Note: Hometown: Dallas, TX, NJ Awarded: Bronze Star A year ago, many people fretted that Iraq’s Anbar province was lost. Yet since then progress has come at an almost unthinkable pace, the results of principled and dangerous work by Marines working with locals. As the top enlisted [...]
