Medal of Honor awarded to former Marine Kyle Carpenter for taking grenade, saving comrade
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Twenty-four-year-old former U.S. Marine, William "Kyle" Carpenter, who lost an eye after taking a grenade blast in Afghanistan to protect a fellow marine, received the nation's highest military honor on Thursday (June 19).
According to CBS DC, Carpenter was only 21-years old when he was wounded on Nov. 21, 2010, while guarding a patrol base in a small village in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
He was assigned to provide security from a rooftop post with Lance Cpl. Nicholas Eufrazio. Their presence concealed only by a circle of sandbags piled three to four high.
Enemy forces, who moved in while hidden by walls from a compound across the street, lobbed three grenades into the patrol base. One of the grenades landed close to Carpenter and Eufrazio. Carpenter placed himself between the grenade and Eufrazio to shield his comrade.
Carpenter was severely wounded, sustaining a depressed skull, multiple facial fractures, the loss of his right eye, a collapsed right lung and fragment injuries to his arms and legs.
He required emergency brain surgery to remove shrapnel after the attack. He flat-lined three times during the treatment. All three times doctors managed to revive him.
Carpenter is the eighth living recipient to be chosen for the Medal of Honor for actions in Iraq or Afghanistan.
He is a native of Flowood, Mississippi and currently a student at the University of South Carolina, ABC 7 reported.
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Twenty-four-year-old former U.S. Marine, William "Kyle" Carpenter, who lost an eye after taking a grenade blast in Afghanistan to protect a fellow marine, received the nation's highest military honor on Thursday (June 19).
According to CBS DC, Carpenter was only 21-years old when he was wounded on Nov. 21, 2010, while guarding a patrol base in a small village in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
He was assigned to provide security from a rooftop post with Lance Cpl. Nicholas Eufrazio. Their presence concealed only by a circle of sandbags piled three to four high.
Enemy forces, who moved in while hidden by walls from a compound across the street, lobbed three grenades into the patrol base. One of the grenades landed close to Carpenter and Eufrazio. Carpenter placed himself between the grenade and Eufrazio to shield his comrade.
Carpenter was severely wounded, sustaining a depressed skull, multiple facial fractures, the loss of his right eye, a collapsed right lung and fragment injuries to his arms and legs.
He required emergency brain surgery to remove shrapnel after the attack. He flat-lined three times during the treatment. All three times doctors managed to revive him.
Carpenter is the eighth living recipient to be chosen for the Medal of Honor for actions in Iraq or Afghanistan.
He is a native of Flowood, Mississippi and currently a student at the University of South Carolina, ABC 7 reported.
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