Obama to award Medal of Honor to Army captain from Maryland

“It was an honor to speak to the president on that day”.

Groberg and another soldier risked their lives in 2012 when their security detail was rushed by a suicide bomber, according to media reports and the White House.

Groberg met him, hit him and threw him to the ground with the help of a sergeant. I pushed him as hard as I could away from our patrol, because I felt he was a threat.

Upon his return in 2010 he transferred to the brigade personal security detachment for the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division and deployed to Kunar Province Afghanistan with Task Force Mountain Warrior in February 2012.

Moments later, a second suicide bomber appeared and blew himself up, killing five of Groberg’s fellow soldiers. The explosion caused a second suicide bomber, who remained hidden behind a small structure near the road, to detonate his vest prematurely.

Groberg woke up 30 feet from where he last stood.

Groberg received medical treatment on the spot for a badly injured leg and was hauled into the back of an armored truck. “I just wanted to make sure he wouldn’t hurt anyone”, Groberg recalled in the story by the Army News Service. “I figured, all right, I must have stepped on an IED, because I couldn’t remember anything”.

After recovering at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Groberg for more than two years, Groberg left the Army. Though he had hoped to continue a career in the Army, his inability to run has led him to serve in a different capacity: as a civilian employee of the Defense Department. “It is my mission to tell everyone”, regarding Command Sgt. Maj.

A French-born soldier will become the 10th living recipient of the Medal of Honor for service in Afghanistan, the White House announced Wednesday. “I have tremendous respect for who the president is as a person, and I definitely will never forget the call”. Kevin J. Griffin, the brigade’s senior enlisted soldier; Maj. Thomas E. Kennedy, U.S. Air Force Maj. Walter D. Gray, and Ragaei Abdelfattah, a representative of the U.S. Agency for global Development.

A naturalized US citizen who was born in France, he graduated from Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda in 2001 and the University of Maryland in 2006.