FORT CARSON, Colo.—Three Green Berets from Fort Carson are set to receive medals today for their role in a 2007 raid against suspected Iraqi insurgents.
One of them, staff Sgt. Jarion Halbisen-Gibbs (Jur-EYE-yun Hal-BYE-sin Gibbs), will receive the Distinguished Service Cross, the second-highest medal for valor a soldier can get.
Only 18 other Army personnel have received that medal during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Two of his fellow soldiers from the 10th Special Forces Group, Capt. Matthew A. Chaney and Sgt. 1st Class Michael D. Lindsay, will get the Silver Star. It ranks just below the Distinguished Service Cross.
The three men stormed a building in a rural compound in Samarra, Iraq and kept fighting after being wounded. Twelve suspected insurgents were killed—including the target of the raid, a man described by the Army as a high-value terrorist who was masterminding extortion and kidnappings.
