Biden to award Medal of Honor to three veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan

President Biden will award the Medal of Honor to three soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan Thursday.

The soldiers set to receive the award include Master Sgt. Earl Plumlee, a member of the Army’s elite Special Forces who fended off an attack by Taliban suicide bombers in Afghanistan in 2013; Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Celiz, a member of the Army Rangers who died in combat in Afghanistan in 2018; and Sgt. 1st Class Alwyn Cashe, who suffered mortal injuries while famously saving several soldiers from a burning vehicle in Iraq in 2005.