{"id":146694,"date":"2023-09-01T09:52:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T13:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=146694"},"modified":"2023-09-01T09:52:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T13:52:38","slug":"kabul-puc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=146694","title":{"rendered":"Kabul PUC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Soldiers, Marines from Kabul evac awarded Presidential Unit Citation<\/h3>\n

By Davis Winkie<\/strong>
\nEditor\u2019s note: This story was updated on Aug. 31, 2023 at 6:14 p.m. EST with additional information from Navy public affairs.<\/em><\/p>\n

Two years ago, the fall of Afghanistan\u2019s capital, Kabul, to the Taliban sparked one of the largest humanitarian operations in U.S. military history. In two weeks, troops helped evacuate more than 124,000 civilians through the airport there, despite a fragile truce with their former Taliban foes and a deadly suicide attack that killed a soldier, a Navy corpsman and 11 Marines.<\/p>\n

The Defense Department announced Thursday that many of the soldiers and Marines who were there at the two-decade war\u2019s close will receive the Presidential Unit Citation for their collective courage. The Presidential Unit Citation, the nation\u2019s highest unit award, is presented for shared \u201cexceptional heroism\u201d roughly equivalent to that required for an individual award of the Distinguished Service Cross or Navy Cross.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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