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More wounded afghan soldiers and searched for the missing team members. still on their heavy enemy fire, he dispoundmounted on the fifth find the bodies of his team members. throughout six hours, disrupted the enemy attack and inspired the command force to fight on. his unwavering courage and steadfast devotion it his u.s. and afghan comrade in the face of certain death reflected credit and upheld the highest traditions of the marine corps and naval service:

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Corporal seized the initiative. with a fellow marine driving, he took the egs posed gunners position as they drove down the steep terrain in a daring attempt to disrupt the attack. disregarding intense enemy fire, now concentrated on the lone vehicle, he killed a number of enemy fighters with the mounted machine guns and some at near point blank range. he made three solo trips in. in the first two, he and his driver evacuated afghan soldiers. when one machine gun was inrop rabl, he directed them...

More wounded afghan soldiers and search for the missing u.s. team members. still under heavy enemy fire he disphoupted the vehicle on the fifth trip and moved on foot to locate and recover the bodies of his team members. corporal meyers daring initiative and fighting spirit throughout the six-hour battle significantly disrupted the attack and inspired members of the command to fight on. his unwavering courage in the face of almost certain death reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the ...

Initiative. he took the exposed gunners position if a gun truck as they drove down steeply terraced terrain to disrupt enemy fire. disregarding intense enemy fire corporal meyer killed a number of enemy fighters with a mounted machine gun and with his rifle, some at near point-blank range as he and his driver made three solo trips into the ambushed area. when one machine gun became inoperable he directed the return to the rally point to switch to another trip into the ambushed area. where his fi...

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Could not be taken, the assault teams boarded other helicopters, everybody got out safely. what should be noted here for the u.s. military, they have long understood that if they knew where bin laden was, they could get into pakistan. they could just go and go after him, the key thing for the military always was how would you get out? how would you get out of an area that was likely facing enemy fire. this was a populated area. they went in very quickly, executed the mission very quickly and got...

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Randi. >> now its after 7:00 p.m. in tripoli. do you see any new signs of bombing runs or any more antiaircraft fire? >> reporter: we just had a little bit of heavy machine gun fire probably not antiaircraft fire in the distance a little bit. but nothing yet. nothing on the scale of what we saw last night. generally that antiaircraft gunfire starts after a couple of missiles or bombs have landed close by. we havent heard anything like that so far randi. >> how is the gadhafi regime holding up? a...