Matt from Blackfive joined us as he does every week at 9pm EST for another edition of Someone You Should Know, our weekly collaboration to bring the untold, inspirational true stories of the men and women fighting for us around the world to the radio.
This week we heard the amazing story of Lance Corporal Christopher Adlesperger, a man who has been nominated for our highest honor, the Medal of Honor.
Unable to penetrate the building with his M-16, Lance Corporal Aldesperger shifted to the grenade launcher. Standing on the roof, he blew holes in the building and then rained down gunfire on the insurgents below. They returned fire and then fled.
Pfc. Aldesperger killed four insurgents who fled into the courtyard, each with a shot to the head. By Col. Malay’s estimate, Aldesperger killed a total of 11 insurgents. The actual number may be higher.
The building had been an insurgent command-and-control center. Failure to quickly subdue it, Col. Malay concluded, could have thrown off the timetable for the Fallujah assault, which depended on speed and keeping U.S. casualties to a minimum.
We also give thanks to the LA Times and reporter Tony Perry for being the exception to the rule, and telling this amazing story in a major American newspaper.
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