Claim: Says that as vice president, he pinned a Silver Star on a Navy captain in Afghanistan who had carried a mortally wounded comrade out of a ravine, and resisted receiving a medal for his actions.
Fact-check: Biden's blended story of battlefield heroism
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Jon Greenberg;Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2019-09-04T00:00:00