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Special forces staff sergeant who received the Medal of Honor for braving machine gun fire and shielding wounded comrades with his body in Afghanistan despite being hit twice, dies of cancer aged 41
2020-05-15
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Former Army Staff Sgt Ronald Shurer II received the Medal of Honor in 2018

  • His wife, Miranda, said Shurer died of cancer at a hospital on Thursday, aged 41

  • Shurer was senior medical sergeant in special forces in April 2008, when his team encountered machine gun and sniper fire and grenades from militants

  • He stabilized one soldier, then fought his way amid gunfire up a mountain to the lead members of the unit and treated and stabilized four more soldiers

  • Shurer then lowered the wounded down a steep mountainside during evacuation
Posted by:Skidmark

#1  RIP - I kept thinking Hacksaw Ridge when I read the story.
Posted by: Warthog   2020-05-15 10:08  

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