Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta a true American Hero. SSGT. Giunta then Spc. Giunta put it all on the line on Oct. 25, 2007 when his platoon was ambushed. At this time Spc. Giunta was serving as a rifle team leader with a company from the Vicenza, Italy-based 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team during combat operations in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley. On Oct 25, 2007 Spc. Giunta’s platoon was attacked by an L-shaped ambush, where the front two members were cut off from the rest due to large amounts of enemy rockets and machine gun fire. Spc. Giunta led his rifle team through the ambush towards the two soldiers that had been separated from the platoon. When he reached the area where the two should have been, he saw two insurgents carrying off one of his fellow soldiers. He immediately engaged the two insurgents while being shot at, he was also shot in his protective vest while in the process of recovering his fellow soldiers. Due to Ssgt Giunta's actions on this day he is the first living person to receive the Medal of Honor from the Iraq or Afghanistan War.
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