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117TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 6879 

To award a Congressional Gold Medal in honor of those who led and served 

during the first Task Force Pineapple mission to, directly and indirectly, 

help Americans and Afghan special operators and their families. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 1, 2022 

Mr. CAWTHORN (for himself, Mr. BUDD, Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio, Mr. MAST, 

Mr. WALTZ, Mr. MULLIN, and Mr. DONALDS) introduced the following 

bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in 

addition to the Committee on House Administration, for a period to be 

subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 

of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To award a Congressional Gold Medal in honor of those 

who led and served during the first Task Force Pineapple mission to, directly and indirectly, help Americans 

and Afghan special operators and their families. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Task Force Pineapple 

5 Congressional Gold Medal Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

2 Congress finds the following: 

3 (1) Task Force Pineapple, a group of veterans, 

4 worked unofficially with the United States military 

5 and the United States Embassy to safely rescue 

6 hundreds of Afghan special operators and American 

7 citizens, bringing them into the United States mili8 tary-controlled part of the Hamid Karzai Inter9 national Airport as the United States was con10 cluding its withdrawal from Afghanistan. 

11 (2) These Afghan special operators served 

12 alongside the United States military throughout the 

13 United States deployment in Afghanistan, inter14 preting and putting their own lives on the line to 

15 ally and assist the United States military. 

16 (3) Working alongside the United States mili17 tary and the United States Embassy, Task Force 

18 Pineapple was able to save an estimate of 500 Af19 ghan special operators and their families on the first 

20 mission. 

21 SEC. 3. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL. 

22 (a) PRESENTATION AUTHORIZED.—The Speaker of 

23 the House of Representatives and the President pro tem24 pore of the Senate shall make appropriate arrangements 

25 for the presentation, on behalf of the Congress, of a gold 


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1 medal of appropriate design to Task Force Pineapple in 

2 recognition of the achievements of Task Force Pineapple. 

3 (b) DESIGN AND STRIKING.—For purposes of the 

4 presentation under subsection (a), the Secretary of the 

5 Treasury (referred to in this Act as the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall 

6 strike a gold medal with suitable emblems, devices, and 

7 inscriptions, to be determined by the Secretary. 

8 (c) SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.—Following the 

9 award of the gold medal under subsection (a), the gold 

10 medal shall be given to the Smithsonian Institution, where 

11 it shall be available for display as appropriate and made 

12 available for research. 

13 SEC. 4. DUPLICATE MEDALS. 

14 (a) STRIKING OF DUPLICATES.—Under such regula15 tions as the Secretary may prescribe, the Secretary may 

16 strike duplicates in bronze of the gold medal struck under 

17 section 3. 

18 (b) SELLING OF DUPLICATES.—The Secretary may 

19 sell such duplicates under subsection (a) at a price suffi20 cient to cover the costs of such duplicates, including labor, 

21 materials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead expenses. 

22 SEC. 5. STATUS OF MEDALS. 

23 (a) NATIONAL MEDALS.—Medals struck under this 

24 Act are national medals for purposes of chapter 51 of title 

25 31, United States Code. 


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1 (b) NUMISMATIC ITEMS.—For purposes of section 

2 5134 of title 31, United States Code, all medals struck 

3 under this Act shall be considered to be numismatic items. 

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