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ooo I just remember 1lt MCc**** is 1Lt. Michael McCarty he earned a silver star for another incident.
• On Nov. 20th, Lt. Michael McCarty’s platoon was serving as the Quick Reaction Force for his company. He was called upon to respond to information that an Iraqi Police station in their area of operations was under attack. As the platoon arrived in the zone of attack, they were engaged by small arms fire, but continued on towards the police station when a suicide car bomber attempted to ram a vehicle in the convoy. The bomb detonated twenty feet from the closest gunship causing massive damage to the vehicle and injuring two of his Soldiers.

• Lt. McCarty maintained control, evacuated the wounded back to base, and returned to the battle to help the Iraqi Police. As they arrived just west of the police station, the platoon encountered a massive engagement by an estimated 75 Insurgents, which is an unusually high concentration of enemy forces at one point. McCarty’s platoon of 26 Soldiers was taking fire by Rocket Propelled Grenades, Medium Machine Guns, and various small arms.

• During the engagement, McCarty’s vehicle was hit with an armor piercing Rocket Propelled Grenade, which injured two more of his Soldiers. As this was happening McCarty observed a machine gun crew preparing to fire on his vehicle.

• With the vehicle still moving, McCarty jumped out and charged the gun crew, single-handedly taking out the three-man team, securing the machine gun, risking his own life and basically saving the lives of his men.

• While McCarty remained dismounted in order to acquire targets during the engagement, he also successfully coordinating an ammunition resupply and casualty evacuation through a radio call to a supporting platoon.

• Continuing with the fight, McCarty was finally forced to break contact with 4 of his 6 vehicles damaged and the ammunition supply running low again, but not before McCarty confirmed at least thirty enemy fighters had been killed.

• Even though more than 20 Rocket Propelled Grenades were launched by the insurgents during the attack, one hour after breaking contact, McCarty declared he was ready to go back into battle. Lt. McCarty led his platoon from the front, which resulted in the destruction of a much larger enemy force and saved the lives of his own men.