![]() Central Command before he retired in 2019. His military career culminated as the senior enlisted leader for U.S. ![]() Thetford, who previously received the Silver Star for actions during the battle. He later served as command surgeon for Joint Special Operations Command. military’s adoption of the emergency tourniquet as a standard part of medical care on the battlefield. He later became a medical doctor and played a key role in the U.S. Robert Mabry, who was an enlisted Delta Force medic during the battle. Macejunas, a Delta Force NCO who led multiple rescue efforts searching for the missing personnel from the helicopters, according to journalist Mark Bowden. 4, 1993 while leading a movement to one of the UH-60 Black Hawk crash sites. ![]() Fillmore, Jr., a Delta Force operator who died Oct. Pending Army Secretary Christine Wormuth’s approval of the awards, the four soldiers now eligible to receive the Distinguished Service Cross are: In addition to the Medals of Honor, Congress also waived time requirements for four soldiers involved in the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu to receive the Distinguished Service Cross. Fujii’s actions were later memorialized in the Army’s official history of medevac operations, and he later sat down for an oral history interview about his experience. airstrikes and artillery in defense of a South Vietnamese base there for two days before he could be safely evacuated. Fujii received the Distinguished Service Cross after coordinating U.S. Fujii, a medical evacuation helicopter crew chief who was left behind, wounded, in Laos amid a massive enemy attack in Feb. A previous recipient of the Silver Star, the 1st Cavalry Division soldier was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for the December firefight after he was killed in action in March 1967. 1, 1966, when he single-handedly assaulted and cleared a trench line and bunkers that were pinning the unit down. Kaneshiro, who saved his platoon from a deadly ambush in Vietnam on Dec. Orig’s suppressing fire allowed an entire platoon to retreat, but the 2nd Infantry Division soldier died manning the machine gun. 15, 1951 in Korea, when he ran into a firefight, evacuating wounded soldiers and taking over a machine gun position after its crew was hit. Orig, who posthumously received the Distinguished Service Cross for actions on Feb. Nakamura, a Japanese-American who was forced to live in an internment camp during World War II, was a former member of the famous 442nd Regimental Combat Team during the previous war. Wataru Nakamura, a 2nd Infantry Division soldier who received a posthumous Distinguished Service Cross in 1952 after making a “one-man assault” on bunkers recently captured by the enemy before dawn on May 18, 1951. Johnson, who was killed in the battle and didn’t initially receive any award, was a member of the 3rd Infantry Division from New York. Johnson, who received the Silver Star posthumously in 2011 for his efforts to defend a hilltop outpost in Korea on June 11-12, 1953. Of the five potential Medal of Honor recipients, three fought in the Korean War, and two fought in the Vietnam War.
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