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Travis Atkins

Army Staff Sgt. Travis Atkins will be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor on March 27, 2019, for saving the lives of three soldiers on June 1, 2007, when his unit ran into insurgents armed with explosive vests southwest of Baghdad.

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