SGT Tavis Delaney Awarded Silver Star for Afghanistan Ambush Heroics

[Weazle23]

http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/daily..._frickin_h.php

With his unit ambushed by more than 200 Taliban fighters and trapped in a firefight that lasted more than 13 hours, Sgt. Tavis Delaney went into hero mode. After coordinating a series of airstrikes, the Washington Air National Guardsman rallied his fellow soldiers for an uphill charge that was caught on camera.

This guy is awesome! Watch the short helmet cam video of when their waiting for one to drop:

"Sir, I say we take that hill," he says. "We need to take that frickin' hill or we're going to play this game all day. You want to run up there with me? After this bomb goes off just charge them bitches? We got to. You guys want to go?"

It's good to see guys like this recognized.

[boutaswell]

It's good to see guys like this recognized.

X2

[IEDmagnet]

OFS

[PIKE]

OFS

x2

[Para-327th]

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[blackflagg509]

Outstanding work by the SGT; I read in the article that the troops were close to the Pakistan border hopefully some of the bombs fell short on that side of the border too.

[old grunt]

Pictures at the ceremony from our resident JTAC(Brock)over on his FB post. This guy is stud and deserves that Silver Star. OUTSTANDING!

[VoTrooper99]

The article says it is the third silver star in GWOT. Maybe they meant third USAF Silver Star?

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[old grunt]

The article says it is the third silver star in GWOT. Maybe they meant third USAF Silver Star?

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THAT has to be what they meant.