Pendleton Marine awarded Silver Star
Military • November 2009 • Views: 611
In June 2008, Strelkauskas was on dismounted patrol in Afghanistan when his team came under heavy machine gun and sniper fire, according to his medal citation.
With fire coming from more than a dozen positions, he “ran deeper into the kill zone to drag a wounded Marine across open terrain to a covered position,” the citation reads. He suffered multiple fragmentation wounds to his hands from rounds ricocheting near his position.