President Biden posthumously awarded Army Sgt. 1st Class Alwyn Cashe of Oviedo the Medal of Honor Thursday for repeatedly going back into his burning Bradley Fighting Vehicle in Iraq in 2005 to rescue soldiers under his command.
"Alwyn Cashe was a soldier's soldier," President Biden said. "A warrior who literally walked through fire for his troops."
The vehicle had been turned into an inferno by a roadside bomb.
"With second and third degree burns covering almost 75-percent of his body, his uniform mostly burned away, the sergeant saw there were still two soldiers and their interpreter unaccounted for," the president continued. "So he went back into the inferno for a third time and got everyone out of that inferno."
Cashe suffered severe burns and later died at a military hospital in Texas. He's survived by his wife Tamara, two daughters and a son.
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