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Thomas Patrick Payne

Then-Staff Sgt. Thomas Patrick Payne pulls security while on a deployment in Afghanistan in 2010. Payne, an Army Ranger, received the Medal of Honor after he risked his life to save dozens of hostages facing imminent execution by ISIS fighters in northern Iraq in 2015.

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