Complex sentence: He received the Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and Combat Infantryman's Badge and was thereafter discharged as a technical sergeant, commissioned as a lieutenant, and named a commander of the Counter Intelligence Corps at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas.
Split into simpler sentences: He received the Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and Combat Infantryman's Badge and was thereafter discharged from the Army as a technical sergeant. Thereafter, he was commissioned as a lieutenant and was named a commander of the Counter Intelligence Corps at Fort Bliss, Texas.