Monti left the cover of rocks and moved through open ground and gunfire to try and rescue Specialist Brian Bradbury, saying, that's my guy. Sergeant First Class Jared Monti ran through a hail of gunfire three times to save a wounded comrade With his men laying down covering fire, he went once more, almost making it before being shot himself.Īward Presented (posthumously): Sep. He tried twice to make it to his wounded comrade, but intense enemy fire pushed him back. Monti left the cover of rocks and moved through open ground and gunfire to try and rescue Specialist Brian Bradbury, saying, "that's my guy. But one of his soldiers was hit and cut off from the rest of the men. With soldiers killed and wounded, Monti called in artillery and close air support. “They were so close at one point you could hear their voices.” you could hear it right over your head, just like whizzing through,” Private First Class Derek James told Stars & Stripes. “We were taking so much fire we couldn’t make out where the mortars landed. Later that evening, a group of at least 60 insurgents established two firing positions only 50 yards away and opened up on the team of only 16 soldiers. 21, 2006, Monti's unit established a small base on a ridge above a valley in northeastern Afghanistan to support troops below.
Lieutenant Michael Murphy went into the open during a fierce battle to call for support But he was overrun.”Īward Presented (posthumously): Oct. He finished the call, picked up his rifle and started fighting again. “I was saying, ‘What are you doing?’ Then I realized that he was making a call. “I was cursing at him from where I was,” Hospital Corpsman Marcus Luttrell, the only survivor of the battle, later told The New York Times.
Murphy picked it back up, completed the call and continued firing at the enemy who was closing in. At one point he was shot in the back causing him to drop the transmitter. He calmly provided his unit’s location and the size of the enemy force while requesting immediate support for his team. When his radioman fell mortally wounded, and with the radio not able to get a clear signal, Murphy disregarded the enemy fire and went out into the open to transmit back to his base and call for support. The fierce gunfight pitted the SEALs against insurgents on the high ground, and they desperately called for support as all four operators were hit by gunshots. 28, 2005 to infiltrate and provide reconnaissance on a Taliban leader, Murphy and the three other members of his team came under withering gunfire from 30 to 40 enemy fighters.
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