Sgt. Maj. Thomas Payne Will Be 1st Living Delta Force Member to Receive Medal of Honor
Matthew Cox
,Military.com•September 5, 2020
Sgt. Maj. Thomas Payne Will Be 1st Living Delta Force Member to Receive Medal of Honor
Seconds after U.S. military helicopters landed on their objective, Army commandos knew their mission to rescue 70 Islamic State-held hostages was off to a chaotic start.
"Ramp drops; it's complete brown-out, part of the compound was already in a pretty intense firefight," Sgt. Maj. Thomas "Patrick" Payne recalled in a video interview released by the Army this month.
Then-Sgt. 1st Class Payne was the assistant team leader of a group of operators attached to 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, which joined Kurdish commandos on a Oct. 22, 2015, nighttime raid to liberate Iraqi hostages from the ISIS prison compound in the northern town of Hawija.
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