This website contains the citation and pictures of Staff Sergeant Jared Monti, U. S. Army, the latest Medal of Honor winner.
The irony of Staff Sergeant Monti's efforts to save one of "his soldiers' life" is that the soldier was not killed by the enemy but by a fall when the winch on the helicopter failed and the soldier and the Army Medic going after him were killed in the fall.
http://www.army.mil/medalofhonor/monti/citation.html
Perhaps even more ironic, there were not enough helicopters available when the request to extract the patrol was made.
We send our military folks into harm's way and then we don't provide them the support they need--an absolutely inexcusable failure of leadership.
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