Bronze Star awarded to soldier who dumped mortars on ISIS fighters in Nangarhar
By: Kyle Rempfer  
The Bronze Star with valor was awarded Thursday to a Fort Bliss soldier who lobbed mortars from exposed ground onto an ISIS fighting position attempting to target wounded friendlies during a fight in eastern Afghanistan two years ago.
On Aug. 16, 2017, Spc. Collin Jackson was serving as an uplift soldier for an Army Special Forces team operating alongside Afghan commandos from the 8th Special Operations Kandak. The troops were working in the Mohmand Valley of southern Nangarhar province, a rugged mountain region near Pakistan.
That area has long been a hotbed of ISIS activity. The militant group managed to carve out and hold a sliver of territory there for years, withstanding much of the U.S. pressure to uproot it.
@rangerrebew Good for him!
Anybody know what a uplift soldier is? Is this a "pc" phrase for support soldier?
BTW,WHY did it take them two years to award him a Bronze Star with the V-device? His company commander should have had the authority to do that?
BTW-2. After reading about what he did,WHY wasn't he awarded a Silver Star? Not that the Bronze Star is something minor,because it isn't,but what this young man did,unsupervised and without help is,IMHO,worthy of a higher award.
Final question. WHY hasn't he already been recruited for SF? WTF is wrong with the SF people he worked with that they didn't immediately snap him up?
