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Meyer "killed at least eight Taliban, personally evacuated 12 friendly wounded, and provided cover for another 24 Marines and soldiers to escape likely death at the hands of a numerically superior and determined foe."
During the war in Afghanistan, Marine Corps Sgt. Dakota Louis Meyer spent hours traversing an active combat zone to rescue dozens of trapped men. Meyer received the Medal of Honor for his...
8 wrz 2009 · U.S. Marine Corps Corporal Dakota Louis Meyer was presented the Medal of Honor for military valor during the War on Terrorism (Afghanistan).
Despite a shrapnel wound to his arm, Corporal Meyer made two more trips into the ambush area in a third gun-truck accompanied by four other Afghan vehicles to recover more wounded Afghan soldiers and search for the missing U.S. team members.
6 gru 2011 · This is what happened to Dakota Meyer when he was deployed as a Marine in Afghanistan, and what he did about it. His patrol, with two Afghan Army platoons, was headed to a meeting in a village...
With a fellow Marine driving, Corporal Meyer took the exposed gunner’s position in a gun-truck as they drove down the steeply terraced terrain in a daring attempt to disrupt the enemy attack and locate the trapped
MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII - Removed from an ambushed platoon of Marines and soldiers in a remote Afghan village on Sept. 8, 2009, his reality viciously shaken by an onslaught of enemy fighters, Cpl....
