Our mission was to conduct a hostage rescue raid on October 22, 2015, and Holy Jairak. The Kurdish regional government reached out to the United States for assistance for a hostage rescue raid. For this mission, I was the assistant team leader. My team was responsible for one of the buildings that the hostage was being held in. What was significant is that there were freshly dug graves, and if we didn't action this target, then the hostages will probably be executed. At that point, it was our duty to bring those men home. That's when you make that transition from soldier to warrior. That's when all joking stops and that's when you do your last minute checks. That's where it's game time. Bramph drops. It's a complete brownout. Part of the compound was already in a pretty intense firefight, as we maneuver to our building. We throw up the ladders, mother, part of my team, maneuver to their block position. That's when we hear that there was a man down, and it was Matt Sartre and Josh Wheeler. That's when one of my teammates looked right now and said, follow me. We cut the locks in the prison doors and opened the cell. Over 25 hostages in one cell, probably 11 in the other. We see their faces light up and they're being liberated. Some are crying, some are excited. While this is going on, there's still an intense firefight going on in other buildings. You can see the flames. You hear all the explosions going on. Here on the radio, an urgent call for assistance. That's when I looked at a teammate to him, he was getting to fight and said, let's go. We're on the roof. The enemies right below us, the smoke and the kind of repelled us from window to window. That's when they're yelling at us. We're yelling at them. We're employing small arms and hang grenades on the enemy's back below. That's when you hear suicide bombers and dishing in their suicide vest like lowest. Shake in the rooftop. Once you're able to control your fear, that's the bridge to personal courage. The personal courage is to take you something battlefield. One of the teams was holding down the bridge point all the way down to the last magazine. Bulls pass through the uniforms and peek in the bridge and see the same prison door that was on the other building. The call for a set of bolt cutters and sorry, I just like, hey, I got you. They beginning gaging in the back room. There's a small foyer. I was able to maneuver into and cut the top lock. I took the bolt cutters back from a difficult to breathe. Smoke pouring out. I was able to cut that bottom lock and bump down and tell them, hey, CQB, CQB, close course battle. That's when we hear that the building is starting to collapse. So the building is starting to collapse. We're getting shot at some fire and we have hostages inside. It was a mandatory evacuation call. It's in my sergeant majors pulling the guys from one of the rooms and I'm like a third base coach. Wave them. Wave them through the initial bridge point. The snatch is flag off the wall, stuffing in my pocket. You see that the train of hostages had stopped. So I grabbed one of the hostages and moved through the bridge point to get the train of hostages going. We're back into the building and notice that one of the hostages had given up on life. So it's over 200 pounds to Big fella and I. So basically grabbed them by the back of the collar and drugging through the bridge point. At that point, then I ran back in for one last check. Then my sergeant major told me that hey, you get them out of the building. So basically made a human wall and until loud, hostages pass behind us. As we gauge the other building, we had to cease fire so the hostages could run behind us because they would stop. Our sergeant major pulled us in and he informed us that the bastard Josh Wheeler had been killed in action. That's when our teammates tell us what Josh Wheeler did that day. His last words before he moved to the sound of the guns were on me. The Medal of Honor represents everything great about our country. And for me, I don't consider myself a recipient of this medal. I consider myself a guardian of this medal. What's important for me is that my teammates' legacies will live on with this medal of honor. You