Sgt. Wade D. “Willy” Wilson's family to receive his Silver Star

Family to receive Silver Star for fallen Marine
Marine Corps Times
By Gidget Fuentes
Staff report
Posted : Monday Mar 11, 2013

OCEANSIDE, Calif. — The Marine Corps will award the Silver Star this week to a platoon sergeant who was fatally wounded as he returned fire on an insurgent attacking Marines in an ambush last year in Afghanistan.

The family of Sgt. Wade D. “Willy” Wilson will receive the posthumous award, the nation’s third-highest medal for combat valor, during a Thursday ceremony at the 5th Marines Regiment parade deck at Camp Pendleton, Calif., 1st Marine Division officials announced Monday. Maj. Gen. Ronald L. Bailey, the division commander, will present the Silver Star to his mother and family.

Wilson, a 22-year-old assigned to 3rd Platoon, Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, was pulling security for a vehicle crippled by an improvised explosive device in Musa Qala, Helmand province, on May 11, 2012.
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