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Medal of Honor Facts. Chapman is the FIRST Airman to receive the Medal of Honor for actions conducted since the Vietnam War. This marks the FIRST Medal of Honor to be awarded to a Special Tactics Airman. Originally posthumously awarded the Air Force Cross for his actions in 2003.
Mar 4, 2021 · Wars. video. Chapman, an Air Force combat controller, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in August 2018 for his bravery during the 2002 Battle of Takur Ghar in Afghanistan, in which he...
Feb 28, 2022 · Twenty years on from the Battle of Takur Ghar, also known as Roberts Ridge, the National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation remembers Air Force Sergeant John A. Chapman, who earned the Medal of Honor on March 4, 2002, and received it posthumously in 2018. Born in 1965, Chapman grew up in Windsor Locks, Connecticut.
Technical Sergeant John A. Chapman distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism as an Air Force Special Tactics Combat Controller, attached to a Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Team conducting reconnaissance operations in Takur Ghar, Afghanistan, on March 4, 2002.
Aug 22, 2018 · Chapman, of Windsor Locks, Connecticut, who was 36 when he died, is the first airman to receive the nation’s highest award for valor for actions taken since the Vietnam War.
John Chapman, a member of the team, began coordinating close air support and a rescue effort to retrieve Roberts. Another helicopter, Razor 4, picked up the team and took them back to rescue Roberts on the 10,000-foot mountaintop. After landing, Chapman advanced on an enemy position, killing two of the enemy. When the team became pinned down by ...
Aug 22, 2018 · MEDAL OF HONOR CITATION. Technical Sergeant John A. Chapman distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism as an Air Force Special Tactics Combat Controller, attached to a Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Team conducting reconnaissance operations in Takur Ghar, Afghanistan, on March 4, 2002.
