FORT BRAGG, N.C. — A paratrooper who is based at Fort Bragg in North Carolina has received a Purple Heart.
Sgt. David Scudder was wounded in Afghanistan last year, according to reports.
Scudder is paratrooper with the U.S. Armyβs 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division. He was injured when his battalion was on a mission in the Farah Province to retake a district center from the Taliban.
The soldiersβ Chinook helicopters landed and were immediately ambushed.
Scudderβs 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.
βMy guys put everything that they had out there and they pulled me off target and kept me safe,β Scudder said.
