Mighty Talks: MOH Recipients MSG Matt Williams and SSG Ronald Shurer
SUMMARY
On April 6, 2008, Operational Detachment-Alpha 3336 entered the Shok Valley in Afghanistan with their Afghan Commando partners to capture a high-value target. Almost immediately upon insertion, the team came under heavy RPG and machine gun fire. Within minutes of landing, the team was dealing with their first casualty and began coordinating an evacuation down the side of a mountain in a foreign language, all the while calling in danger close ordnance to repel the enemy onslaught.
As with many other Medal of Honor recipients, the award has changed their lives as they are now part of the Medal of Honor Society, and have appeared on national media to share their heroic actions and remember the efforts of others."You're not wearing it for yourself, you're wearing it for all those guys who didn't come home, and everyone out there who is still doing the job and still doing the mission," said Shurer. "If nothing else it puts me in a position to highlight great things that are done constantly by SF teams, special forces teams are always, are constantly out there doing these things" added Williams, "I hope you see a representation of the great things that all the men and women that serve the country are capable of doing and do" he added.
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