The Army Ranger will receive the nation’s highest award for heroism on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that prompted him to join the Army right out of high school.
Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.Army Sgt. Major Thomas Payne receives the Medal of Honor on Friday for his heroism in a daring special operations raid in northernPayne told Pentagon reporters on Thursday that after he receives the award he will consider himself to be more than a Medal of Honor recipient, but a guardian of what it means.
Shortly after the raid, ABC News reported that Wheeler and the other members of the American team belonged to Delta Force, the Army’s elite special operations team.Today, the Army will only describe Payne as an instructor assigned to U.S. Army Special Operations Command who at the time of the raid was deployed as part of a joint special operations task force supporting Iraqi and Kurdish forces.
On the night of the 2015 raid, Payne’s team had flown in by helicopter targeting a two-building compound housing the prisoners. At ground level he engaged enemy fighters through a breach hole to the side of the building before entering the building’s main entrance through withering enemy fire.
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