Master Sgt. Thomas Case; two Silver Star medals

Will sends us a link to the WRAL article about Fort Bragg, North Carolina’s Air Force Master Sergeant Thomas Case who earned his second Silver Star Medal which places him in a very exclusive club of three;

While on a mountainous battlefield in Afghanistan, Case risked his life several times to help save his fellow soldiers. He exposed himself to enemy fire, fixed a broken radio and called in fire from supporting aircraft. He also shot dead two highly skilled foreign fighters.

The citation was read in front of his peers and family inside a packed hanger at Pope Army Airfield.

“Well, your first thought is, ‘What were you thinking?’ But then after, you read it again, and you swell up with pride,” said Glenn Case, Thomas’ father.

Thomas Case recalls the moment as just another day at work.

“You wake up, you get the mission, and you go do it,” he said.

Read more at http://www.wral.com/fort-bragg-airman-awarded-rare-second-silver-star-/14177876/#X6J36IDsVq0rgavE.99

From Stars & Stripes;

As a staff sergeant in 2004, he was awarded his first Silver Star for an operation during the 2003 invasion of Iraq to seize and hold the Haditha dam. Over the course of several days, controlling up to 14 aircraft simultaneously, Case was responsible for over 300 enemy casualties, the destruction of dozens of enemy tanks, scores of artillery pieces and even a few enemy boats.

Category: Real Soldiers