In this episode, Brian Chontosh, a retired Marine Corps officer, talks with MWI’s Charlie Faint about the circumstances of an intense and complex combat operation in Iraq involving Brian and his Marines using captured enemy weapons to clear an entrenched hostile force that ambushed their convoy. Brian ultimately received the Navy Cross, one of the top valor award in the US military, for his actions that day.
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Image credit: Gunnery Sgt. Jeremy Vought