Dnews Guard Members Honored

Sergeant First Class Madsen receives a hug from Major General and Adjutant General of the Utah National Guard Jeff Burton after Madsen was presented with The Silver Star, the United State’s third-highest award for valor, during a ceremony at the Utah National Guard Headquarters in Draper on Sunday, March 18, 2018. At the ceremony, members of the Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 19th Special Forces Group, were awarded various medals for their service, including four Silver Stars. For reasons regarding the safety of award recipients, the media was asked to not directly show the recipients’ faces and to only use their ranks and last names for identification.

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