The U.S. military and Guam emergency response teams logged 120 hours and traversed 11,000 square nautical miles in an effort to find the missing sailor.
When the “shot heard ‘round the world” rang out, it launched a legacy carried on in today’s National Guard, Gen. Steve Nordhaus writes in this commentary.
The boatswain’s mate, who grew up in Egypt, was awarded for his gutsy role in responding to a pirate attack on a commercial tanker in the Gulf of Aden.