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Bronze Star for Stryker Soldier

Mar-16-2009 » Filed Under: 2/25 SBCT

Both the Honolulu Advertiser and the Honolulu Star Bulletin have articles regarding 2/25 SBCT officer CPT Logan Veath, who received the Bronze Star with Valor at the brigade's recent homecoming ceremony. From the Advertiser:

An ambush had been sprung, and enemy small arms and rocket propelled grenade fire rained in from multiple points.

Capt. Logan Veath, a company commander with the 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry, helped pull out the wounded tank crewman, then saw his Stryker vehicle get hit.

"I started running toward my Stryker, saying a silent prayer, 'Please don't let my men burn up in there,' " the 31-year-old Veath recalled saying.

But Spc. Andrew Howard was on fire, screaming and running toward the enemy, according to accounts from the firefight.


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