After A Six Hour Stand Off Against The Taliban, Marine Awarded Silver Star

This Marine Accepted The Silver Star After A Six Hour Stand Off Against The Taliban
Robert Johnson
Feb. 13, 2012

When twenty-two-year-old Marine Sgt. Phillip McCulloch Jr. was rocked by an RPG during his third combat tour in Afghanistan, he was rushed to the hospital and given the option of going home.

His unit, the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment from Camp Pendleton had been pinned down by insurgents in a lengthy and grueling firefight within the Sangin Valley last spring. They lost 25 Marines, and suffered 200 casualties, the largest loss of any battalion in the war.

McCullouch refused the discharge, recuperated and was sent back to his unit where he continued his combat tour. He may have tried to put that day in the Sangin Valley behind him, but the Marine Corps did not, and Friday he was honored with the Silver Star, the third highest medal for valor in the nation.
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