He earned two Medal of honors, it was the first ever recorded. John was killed after being shot through the heart. We are a non-profit humanitarian organization whose mission is to protect and care for families in conflict zones. relief from their enemies and killed 75,000 of those who. Chapman moved from his concealed position to draw enemy fire when he heard a quick reaction force helicopter approaching his position so the men on board could avoid sustained fire from the enemy. The salvation of the righteous is from the Lord he is their stronghold in the time of trouble. Over the course of the battle Chapman sustained over 12 gunshot and shrapnel wounds. Chapman held off the enemy for over forty minutes, fighting back multiple charges and engaging and winning multiple hand to hand combat exchanges with the enemy. Not long after, Chapman recovered and despite severe, mortal wounds, he continued to fight relentlessly, sustaining a violent engagement with over two dozen enemy combatants. With two other seals injured by gunfire in grenade shrapnel wounds and his team believing John was killed, they retreated leaving him behind. During this assault from an exposed position directly in the line of intense fire, Sergeant Chapman was struck two times in the hip by enemy fire and incapacitated. With complete disregard for his own life, Sergeant Chapman deliberately moved from cover only 12 meters from the enemy, and exposed himself once again to attack a second bunker, from which an emplaced machine gun was firing on his team. Upon reaching the bunker, Sergeant Chapman assaulted and cleared the position, killing two enemy occupants. He fearlessly charged an enemy bunker, up a steep incline in thigh-deep snow and into hostile fire, directly engaging the enemy. Without regard for his own safety, Sergeant Chapman immediately engaged, moving in the direction of the closest enemy position despite coming under heavy fire from multiple directions. Sergeant Chapman and the team voluntarily reinserted onto the snow-capped mountain, into the heart of a known enemy stronghold to rescue one of their own. Chapman distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism as an Air Force Special Tactics combat controller, attached to a Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Team conducting reconnaissance operations in Takur Ghar, Afghanistan, on March 4, 2002.
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