Navy SEAL To Receive Medal Of Honor For Leading Mission To Rescue Fallen Teammate – IOTW Report

Navy SEAL To Receive Medal Of Honor For Leading Mission To Rescue Fallen Teammate

Tuesday, 8 May 2018, 18:30 MJA Uncategorized 14

Daily Caller: A Navy SEAL who led a rescue operation to retrieve a fallen teammate on a treacherous mountain peak in Afghanistan will receive the Medal of Honor, the White House announced Monday.

Retired Master Chief Special Warfare Operator Britt K. Slabinski will receive the nation’s highest military award on May 24, the White House said.

Slabinski is credited with rallying a team of SEALs for a counter-assault on al-Qaeda fighters, who had pinned down another SEAL, Petty Officer 1st Class Neil Roberts, during a firefight in the early morning hours of March 4, 2002. Roberts had been ejected from a Chinook helicopter as it was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade, and he was surrounded by enemy fighters on the snow-covered ridge.

When Slabinski realized how dire Roberts’ position was, he “boldly rallied his remaining team and organized supporting assets for a daring assault back to the mountain peak in an attempt to rescue their stranded teammate,” the White House announcement reads. more here

14 Comments on Navy SEAL To Receive Medal Of Honor For Leading Mission To Rescue Fallen Teammate

  2. The Corps has said that we ar ,”no better friend …”

    WRONG! I have known Manny froggy/SEALS IN HE LAST 60 YEARS. NO ONE WILL RISK HIS LIFE FOR YOU LIKE A seal. AND MY BUDDY CLIFF LOST HIS LIFE TO CHM. MOA’S BOYS 55 YEARS AGO; PROOF POSITIVE!
    GOD BLESS YOU CLIFF (he was a Froggy, but the SEALS I have known the last 30 years almost all refer to themselves as “Frog men”!

    What the HELL was Bush doing in ’02, ’03,’04 …!?#@ GD leftist —-

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  3. I spent eight years after high-school working for AAFES on Fort Lewis, first at service stations and then as a Warehouse Foreman. I got to know quite a few CMOH recipients. They were the most unassuming and humble men. It was an honor to have met them.

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  4. No greater sacrifice, than a man who is willing to lay down his life for another.
    Bravo Zulu, Retired Master Chief Special Warfare Operator Britt K. Slabinski

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  5. For some of our readers here who may not be all that familiar with the Congressional Medal of Honor, it is intended to be a quite singular thing.

    Short version, “You died doing something so horrific, so unselfish, so dangerous to your own life we are going to commemorate that for all time.” The lesser awarded by numbers, “You should have died doing something so horrific, so unselfish, so dangerous to your own life we are going to commemorate that for all time.”

    Another thing not well known outside the uniformed ranks. Officers salute enlisted members wearing the award. They are saluting the award, not the man. Same as enlisted salute the rank/uniform of officers, not the individual. Yeah, we have some weird customs.

    I’ve never met a recipient. Maybe one day that will change.

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  6. “Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”

    Thank you Master Chief Specialist Sablinski

    (popular variation on a poem by Rudyard Kipling, attributed to George Orwell & Winston Churchill)

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  10. ” tis Tommy this and Tommy that, and Tommy where’s yer soul?
    But yer the ‘ero of our country when the guns begin to roar.”
    Something like that by Rudyard Kipling
    Moaan Labe.?

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