Sgt Maj Thomas Payne Will Receive Medal of Honor From Trump on 9-11

President Donald Trump skeleton on awarding Army Sergeant Major Thomas P. Payne a endowment of respect on Sept. 11, 2020. Sgt. Major Payne helped rescue 70 hostages who were being hold warrant by Islamic State militants in Iraq in 2015.

Who is Sergeant Major Payne?

Sgt. Maj. Payne is an instructor reserved to a United States Army Special Operations Command. He grew adult in a Batesburg-Leesville and Lugoff areas in South Carolina.

Payne was in highschool when a Sep 11th attacks happened. This had a outrageous impact on Payne. After he graduated in 2002 he enlisted into a Army as an Infantryman 11B.

By a finish of 2002, Payne had finished a Basic Airborne Course during Fort Benning, Georgia. From there he entered a Ranger Indoctrination Program, that is now famous as a Ranger Assessment and Selection Program.

Joining a Army and His Missions

After he graduated from there — in early 2003 — he was reserved as a rifleman to a 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment. He after became a sniper and afterwards sniper group personality until Nov 2007.

Afterwhich, he was afterwards comparison for assignment to a U.S. Army Special Operations Command located in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He has given served as a special operations group member, assistant, group sergeant. He has also turn a group sergeant and instructor while there.

Payne has been deployed 17 times in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation New Dawn, and Operation Iraqi. He has also been deployed to support in Operation Inherent Resolve and to a U.S. Africa Command area of responsibility.

On Sept. 3, 2020, a White House announced that Trump will be famous Army Sgt. Maj. Payne for “conspicuous gallantry.”

What Bravery Did He Show?

Sergeant Major Payne led a total attack group in a intrepid “nighttime warrant rescue.” The rescue took place in Kirkuk Province in Iraq. The matter serve pronounced that his instance of well-developed “heroism and unselfish actions” was essential in rescuing “75” people. During a “rescue mission’ in that “20 rivalry fighters” were eliminated.

Furthermore, a Medal of Honor is a top and many prestigious endowment in a U.S. Military. In sequence to accept this decoration, a recipients have to denote “incontestable explanation of a opening of a commendable conduct, and any recommendation for a endowment contingency be deliberate on a customary of unusual merit.”

President Trump is scheduled to give Sergent Major Payne his Medal of Honor on a 19th anniversary of a 9-11 attacks.

Written by Sheena Robertson
Sources:

CBS: South Carolina infantryman to accept Medal of Honor for Iraq warrant rescue; Associated Press, WLTX
CNN: Trump to endowment Medal of Honor to Army Ranger for Iraq warrant rescue; Paul Leblanc
U.S. Army: SERGEANT MAJOR THOMAS P. PAYNE

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