Within minutes, Leroy -- then a Staff Sergeant -- and another soldier are pushing ahead into a courtyard, surrounded by high mud walls.
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Dr. KNORR: You know, from a commander's standpoint and from a staff sergeant's standpoint, they - a staff sergeant might have 30 soldiers in his platoon, and he has to get them trained and ready and working as a cohesive team.
The determined Marine who fought to get on that team -- Staff Sergeant Aaron Kenefick.
And we gather to present the Medal of Honor to one of these soldiers -- Staff Sergeant Clinton L. Romesha.
If we do -- if we keep their legacy alive, if we keep faith with the freedoms they died to defend -- then we can imagine a day, decades from now, when another child sits down at his desk, ponders the true meaning of heroism and finds inspiration in the story of a soldier -- Staff Sergeant Robert J.
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About a mile away, Dakota, who was then a corporal, and Staff Sergeant Juan Rodriguez-Chavez, could hear the ambush over the radio.
Staff Sergeant Jesse Childress -- an Air Force reservist, 29 years old, a cyber specialist who loved sports, the kind of guy, said a friend, who'd help anybody.
In February 2005, forty-one-year-old U.S. Army Reserve Staff Sergeant Jack Lewis witnessed the aftermath of a late-night crash involving a nineteen-ton Stryker armored vehicle (call sign "Rattlesnake Six-Seven") and a small car.
And I hear Kristi in the background - I mean, Staff Sergeant David Marino took me out on the streets of Hit, and this is a man who kept me from getting killed in firefights.
Staff Sergeant Kendall Damon Waters-Bey.
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Staff Sergeant Romesha then mobilized a five-man team and returned to the fight equipped with a sniper rifle.
To date the highest ranking soldier that has been convicted has been a staff sergeant and career ending, non-judicial punishments were handed out to two higher ranking officers.
Weeks later, a 38-year-old U.S. Army staff sergeant was accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians, most of them women and children.
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Carleeh Mulholland, the Mortonsens' 25-year-old daughter, is married to a staff sergeant at Fort Stewart.
As the enemy forces attacked with even greater ferocity, unleashing a barrage of rocket-propelled grenades and recoilless rifle rounds, Staff Sergeant Romesha identified the point of attack and directed air support to destroy over 30 enemy fighters.
This afternoon in the East Room of the White House, the President presented the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry to Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta, U.S. Army -- the first living servicemember from the Iraq or Afghanistan wars to receive it.
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As a weapons squad leader with Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, Staff Sergeant Petry moved to clear the courtyard of a house that potentially contained high-value combatants.
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As a staff sergeant with the 293rd Combat Engineer Battalion, Lewis landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day and had been fighting for nearly a year.
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