Fort Bragg Soldiers Receive Distinguished Service Cross

Soldiers receive Distinguished Service Cross for incredible valor
Army Times
By Michelle Tan, Staff writer
February 17, 2015

Staff Sgt. Jeffery Dawson, second from the left, of the 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, earned a Distinguished Service Cross on Tuesday for heroism in Afghanistan. (Photo: Patrick A. Albright/Army)

Sgt. Bryan Anderson heard the bombs explode. Three deafening booms ringing almost simultaneously.

Without a second thought, he sprinted 300 meters toward the explosions.

"I wasn't concerned with my life," said Anderson, a medic. "I was concerned that I had buddies who were bleeding out back on the compound."

For his actions on that night in southern Afghanistan, Anderson on Tuesday received the Distinguished Service Cross, a valor award second only to the Medal of Honor.

Also presented with the DSC was Staff Sgt. Jeffery Dawson, an explosive ordnance disposal technician who, despite limited visibility inside a compound heavily seeded with IEDs, relentlessly and repeatedly cleared the way to retrieve his fallen and wounded teammates.

Receiving the DSC is "so surreal," said Dawson, who belongs to the 28th Ordnance Company, an airborne EOD unit at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
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