Jake Tapper Reports: An Unlikely Hero
TSO’s buddy, Jake Tapper emailed him to get the word out about Tapper’s upcoming documentary about Staff Sergeant Ty Carter who has been recently selected for the Medal of Honor for his actions at COP Keating;
Tapper traveled to Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state for the interview with Carter, whose Medal of Honor for his valorous action during the October 2009 attack on Combat Outpost Keating will mark the first time in nearly fifty years that two living service members are awarded the nation’s highest honor for actions during the same battle. In February, President Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to former U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Clint Romesha.
Carter and Romesha were central figures in Tapper’s New York Times bestselling book, “The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor.” The book, which will be published in paperback on October 22, chronicles the troubled history of one of the most remote American military posts in Afghanistan and the eight American service members killed in the October 2009 attack on Combat Outpost Keating. Tapper traveled to Afghanistan twice while reporting the book. For more about Ty Carter’s story from “The Outpost” click here.
I trust that Jake, one of the last surviving journalists, will do an excellent job with this story. The program will be on CNN Wednesday August 21st at 10 PM, so be sure to watch.
Category: Real Soldiers
Excellent book.
Read it on Kindle and liked it so much that I got it in hardcover to add to the library.
Heartbreaking, especially when you consider COP Keating never should have been there in the first place, but a gritty, honest look at Soldiers at their best (and in some cases- worst).
Even with all the fog looming over Washington and other issues of the day … there is no doubt that our Nation will survive becuase of men like Staff Sergeant Ty Carter.
We America’s are different and the offspring of the difference, in part, is our fighting spirit. That fighting spirit, no doubt, was best demonstrated by Staff Sergeant Ty Carter and the other men who fought at COP Keating.
I read it as well, heartbreaking and it made me so angry to have so many of our guys put at risk when it was obvious to so many that the COP shouldn’t be there. Through the whole thing I kept hearing Sam Elliot’s voice in the movie Gettysburg about the high ground. Definitely a case for ‘those who don’t remember history are condemned to repeat it’.
Dakota Meyer’s book was like that for me too. Why is it that the most heroic actions seem to take place during the military’s biggest screw ups?
I was all looking forward to him being awarded the MOH here @ Joint Base Lewis-McChord and was anticipating in being at the historic ceremony, then sadly, found out he was going to the “other” Washington. I am now going to have to read the book; only saw excerpts. Godspeed SSgt Ty Carter!!
Just one correction. It’s been just under 20 years since two soldiers received the Medal of Honor for the same action. Gary Gordon and Randy Shugart each received the Medal of Honor (posthumouosly) for their actions in Somolia on 3 October 1993. They were involved in the battle that was the basis for “Blackhawk Down.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Shughart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gordon