Dakota Meyer, a Marine who received the medal of honor for heroism in the Afghanistan War, but then became a strong critic of the Biden administration about her chaotic retreat from that conflict, is being restarted in the army and will serve in the Marine.
In an informative session with journalists on Thursday before his re -registration ceremony, Meyer, 36, said he returns to military service after 15 years by uniform because he felt that “he had more to give.” It is also close to the secretary of defense of President Trump, Pete Hegseeth.
But Meyer said he would reflect from politics while he was in uniform.
“The great part of being in reservations is that I am still a citizen when I am not in the orders,” he said. “When I am in orders, obviously, I have to whatever the standard.”
In the comments of the letter duration of the ceremony, Hegseeth said that Meyer’s reuggage “is not a common practice” and the body of Marines “no” no “not” lightly “, but praised the” unusual value of Meyer. “
Originally from Kentucky, Meyer received the Medal of Honor, the highest honor of the Army, by the then President Barack Obama in 2011 for his heroic in Afghanistan when he accused five times in a Humvee in heavy shots at rescue embers.
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On September 8, 2009, Meyer was part of a security team that supported a patrol that moved to a village in the Ganjgal Valley. Suddenly, the lights in a nearby town came out and shots shots. Around 50 taliban insurgents in the House of Mountains and in the town they had ambushed the patrol.
Their actions last the six -hour attack and the shooting saved the lives of 36 people, both American and Afghan. He killed at least eight taliban insurgents. Shooting from a gun turret on a Humvee driven by a fellow Marine, the supplier cover of his team, which allows many to escape the probable death.
Meyer described the events In a 2011 interview with CBS News “” 60 minutes “, telling the correspondent David Martin,” I thought I was going to that. I knew it was. “
Four American soldiers died in the ambush: the first lieutenant Michael Johnson, 25, of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Staff sergeant. Aaron Kenefick, 30, or Roswell, Georgia; Corpsman James Layton, 22, or Riverbank, California; and Edwin Wayne Johnson Jr., a 31 -year -old artillery sergeant from Columbus, Georgia. A fifth man, army sergeant. Kenneth W. Westbrook, 41, or Shiprock, New Mexico, later died of his wounds.
After leaving the army, Meyer remained in the center of attention. In 2016 he married the former candidate for vice presidency Sarah Palin, Bristol, and had two children. Years later, in 2019, he told “60 minutes” about his experience with a New post -traumatic stress disorder treatment.
It is a frank leg about the imprisonment of another Marine, Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller, who criticized the Biden administration for the withdrawal of 2021 of Afghanistan on social networks while it is in uniform, which is a rape of military behavior.
