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Finally tonight here, america strong. the young husband and father and hero on the battlefield. tonight, army medic ronald j. shurer ii recognized with the nation's highest military award, the medal of honor. 9/11 inspired staff sergeant shurer to join the army. a green beret, two deployments to afghanistan. he is third from the left there with fellow members of operational detachment alpha 3336, a special operations task force. on april 6th, 2008, shurer and his fellow soldiers were ambushed by some 200 enemy fighters, taking on heavy machine gun, sniper and rocket-propelled grenade fire. bra...

Pinned down on the mountainside. staff sergeant shurer and the rest of the trailing portion of the assault element were like wooi likewise engaged by enemy machine gun, sniper, and rocket-propelled grenade fire. as the attack intensified, he braved enemy fire to move to an enemy soldier and treat his wounds. having stabilized the soldier, he then learned of the casual 'tis among the lead element. staff sergeant shurer fought his way up the mountainside to the lead element's location. upon reaching the lead element, he treated and stabilized two more soldiers, finishing those life-saving evee i...

Congress the medal of honor to staff sergeant ronald j. shurer, ii, united states army, for c conspicuous gallantry at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. staff sergeant ronald j. shurer distinguished himself by gallantry above and beyond the call of duty on april 6th, 2008, while serving as a senior medical sergeant, special forces operational detachment alpha 3336, special operations task force, 33, in support of operation enduring freedom. staff sergeant shurer was part of an assault element inserted by helicopter into a location in afghanistan. as the assault element mo...