Army soldier Clinton Romesha will receive the award for displaying "conspicuous gallantry" during a 2009 firefight that pitted some 400 Taliban footsoldiers against 53 ambushed American troops.
Seven members of the Navy SEAL Team Six are being punished for leaking classified information, but the punishment isn't linked to the raid to kill Osama bin Laden at all.
McClatchy reports today that the Marines may have publicized a version of the story that won Dakota Meyer a medal of honor this September that doesn't fit what actually happened.
The president and a Medal of Honor recipient have a beer at the White House
Marine to be awarded for acts of courage in Afganistan from 2009
Sergeant First Class Leroy Arthur Petry grabbed an exploding grenade
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