Former Fort Bragg soldier receives Medal of Honor
The Special Forces team and its Afghan commandos were stranded on a mountain face with nowhere to go.All around them the Shok Valley had erupted as more than 200 insurgents opened fire and closed in on the 3rd Special Forces Group team, known as Operational Detachment-Alpha 3336, on April 6, 2008.Their commander, then-Capt. Kyle Walton, recalled the situation was deteriorating. Bullets were ricocheting off their equipment and bouncing off the rock around them.He could […]
