Statue at Pope Army Airfield honors late Medal of Honor airman John Chapman
On Aug. 22, 2018, Valerie Nessel received a posthumous Medal of Honor on behalf of her late husband, Master Sgt. John Chapman.Chapman was killed March 4, 2002, as he repeatedly darted through enemy bullets atop a mountain in Takur Ghar, Afghanistan, to protect his teammates.He is the first airman since Vietnam to receive the nation’s highest military decoration and is the first special tactics airman with the honor.On Thursday, a life-sized statue depicting a […]
