A paratrooper who is based at Fort Bragg in North Carolina has received a Purple Heart.
The Fayetteville Observer reported Tuesday that Sgt. David Scudder was wounded in Afghanistan last year.
Scudder is paratrooper with the U.S. Army's 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division. He was injured on Sept. 12, 2019 when his battalion was on a mission in the Farah Province to retake a district center from the Taliban.
The soldiers’ Chinook helicopters landed and were immediately ambushed.
Scudder's fellow soldiers put him on a stretcher and moved him for about 2 miles. The soldiers were attacked a second time before getting Scudder to a helicopter landing zone. Scudder said the bullet that hit his leg is still in there.
“My guys put everything that they had out there and they pulled me off target and kept me safe,” Scudder said.