Tyson Walsh

In Afghanistan, in 2013, then-Capt. Tyson Walsh was exercising alone on the inside perimeter road of his coalition base, just before sunrise, when he found an insurgent trying to sneak through a gate.

Unarmed and alone, Walsh engaged and neutralized the insurgent in hand-to-hand combat, killing him, only to be seriously wounded by a second insurgent who came, too late, to rescue the first. His actions uncovered a major plan to do harm on the base.

He was subsequently awarded the Bronze Star with a “V” device for valorous action, and the Purple Heart.