Oregon Army National Guardsman Awarded for Heroism
Channel: NationalGuard
Date: 2015-09-19

U.S. Secretary of Defense, Hon. Ashton Carter presents the Soldier's Medal at the Pentagon September 17, 2015 to Alek Skarlatos, an American Oregon Army National Guard Specialist who, along with fellow Americans, Spencer Stone and Anthony Sadler, a Briton and two French men, stopped a gunman on a Paris-bound train travelling from Amsterdam via Brussels last month. He has been awarded the United States Army Soldier's Medal from U.S. President Barack Obama, and has received France's highest decoration, the Legion of Honour, from French president François Hollande.