- SURNAME
Lamb
- FORENAME
Al
- UNIT
1 SF Operational Detachment - Delta (Task Force Ranger,Special Ops Command)
- RANK
Sergeant First Class
- NUMBER
- AWARD
Silver Star
- PLACE
Somalia 1993
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
CITATION:
Silver Star : The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star Medal to Al Lamb, Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against hostile enemy forces while serving with the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment - Delta, Task Force RANGER, Special Operations Command, during combat operations in Mogadishu, Somalia, on 3 and 4 October 1993. Following the crash of a Black Hawk helicopter in the streets of Mogadishu, Sergeant First Class Lamb ignored the deadly fire of the numerically superior enemy force that surrounded and threatened to overrun the embattled survivors of the crash, to rope down into the tenuous defensive perimeter in efforts to rescue the American survivors. His gallant actions in the face of deadly enemy fire was in keeping with the highest traditions of the military forces of the United States and reflects great credit upon himself and the United States Army.
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