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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 con-
cerned 
A BILL 
To award a Congressional Gold Medal in honor of those 
who led and served during the first Task Force Pine-
apple mission to, directly and indirectly, help Americans 
and Afghan special operators and their families. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Task Force Pineapple 
Congressional Gold Medal Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Task Force Pineapple, a group of veterans, 
worked unofficially with the United States military 
and the United States Embassy to safely rescue 
hundreds of Afghan special operators and American 
citizens, bringing them into the United States mili-
tary-controlled part of the Hamid Karzai Inter-
national Airport as the United States was con-
cluding its withdrawal from Afghanistan. 
(2) These Afghan special operators served 
alongside the United States military throughout the 
United States deployment in Afghanistan, inter-
preting and putting their own lives on the line to 
ally and assist the United States military. 
(3) Working alongside the United States mili-
tary and the United States Embassy, Task Force 
Pineapple was able to save an estimate of 500 Af-
ghan special operators and their families on the first 
mission. 
SEC. 3. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL. 
(a) PRESENTATION AUTHORIZED.—The Speaker of 
the House of Representatives and the President pro tem-
pore of the Senate shall make appropriate arrangements 
for the presentation, on behalf of the Congress, of a gold 
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medal of appropriate design to Task Force Pineapple in 
recognition of the achievements of Task Force Pineapple. 
(b) DESIGN AND STRIKING.—For purposes of the 
presentation under subsection (a), the Secretary of the 
Treasury (referred to in this Act as the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall 
strike a gold medal with suitable emblems, devices, and 
inscriptions, to be determined by the Secretary. 
(c) SMITHSONIAN
INSTITUTION.—Following the 
award of the gold medal under subsection (a), the gold 
medal shall be given to the Smithsonian Institution, where 
it shall be available for display as appropriate and made 
available for research. 
SEC. 4. DUPLICATE MEDALS. 
(a) STRIKING OF DUPLICATES.—Under such regula-
tions as the Secretary may prescribe, the Secretary may 
strike duplicates in bronze of the gold medal struck under 
section 3. 
(b) SELLING OF DUPLICATES.—The Secretary may 
sell such duplicates under subsection (a) at a price suffi-
cient to cover the costs of such duplicates, including labor, 
materials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead expenses. 
SEC. 5. STATUS OF MEDALS. 
(a) NATIONAL MEDALS.—Medals struck under this 
Act are national medals for purposes of chapter 51 of title 
31, United States Code. 
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(b) NUMISMATIC ITEMS.—For purposes of section 
5134 of title 31, United States Code, all medals struck 
under this Act shall be considered to be numismatic items. 
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