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    Raider’s Valor Recognized with Silver Star [Image 2 of 3]

    Raider’s Valor Recognized with Silver Star

    MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, NC, UNITED STATES

    04.06.2018

    Photo by Sgt. Janessa Dugan 

    Marine Forces, Special Operations Command

    General Tony Thomas, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, presents the Silver Star to a Marine critical skills operator with 3rd Marine Raider Battalion, Marine Raider Regiment, U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Special Operations Command. The Marine Raider received the Silver Star April 6, 2018 at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., for courageous acts of valor while responding to a terrorist attack on a hotel in Mali in 2015. The Raider led his team through enemy small arms fire, grenades and structural fires in order to rescue the terrorists’ 170 hostages. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Marine Sgt. Janessa K. Pon)

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    IMAGE INFO

    Date Taken: 04.06.2018
    Date Posted: 04.06.2018 16:54
    Photo ID: 4275327
    VIRIN: 180406-M-TA471-0038
    Resolution: 4501x3001
    Size: 8.78 MB
    Location: MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, NC, US

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