An Army captain based at Fort Carson who shoved a suicide bomber to the ground and away from his security detail became the nation’s newest Medal of Honor recipient Thursday as President Barack Obama credited the captain with preventing a greater catastrophe.
Florent Groberg, 32, is the 10th living service member awarded the nation’s highest honor for battlefield bravery in Iraq or Afghanistan. He is the third soldier from Fort Carson to be honored for actions in Afghanistan. Four people were killed in the attack, and several others were wounded. As families of the victims and some former Army colleagues watched, Obama draped the medal around Groberg’s neck at a White House ceremony. Afterward, Groberg dedicated the medal to those killed and their families, saying they were the true heroes.
