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DoD News Update: President Awards Medal of Honor to Army Captain for Heroics in Afghanistan

  • Defense.gov
  • Nov. 12, 2015 | 0:59

℠2015 – President Barack Obama presented the Medal of Honor to retired Army Capt. Florent A. Groberg at a ceremony at the White House, Nov. 12. In August 2012, while serving on active duty in Afghanistan, Groberg was helping lead an escort for a meeting with a local official when his unit encountered a suicide bomber.