{"id":25911,"date":"2021-09-02T16:20:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/09\/02\/a-dozen-years-later-this-10th-mountain-vet-receives-silver-star\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T02:31:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:31:06","slug":"a-dozen-years-later-this-10th-mountain-vet-receives-silver-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2021\/09\/02\/a-dozen-years-later-this-10th-mountain-vet-receives-silver-star\/","title":{"rendered":"A dozen years later, this 10th Mountain vet receives Silver Star"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was Aug. 10, 2009, when Sgt. Adam Holroyd and his fellow 10th Mountain Division soldiers came under a coordinated enemy attack in Nuristan Province, Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soldiers from the \u201cChosin Battalion\u201d 1st Batt., 32nd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, had been tasked to air assault into the district center of northern Nuristan, \u201cBarg-e Matal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout the coming months, they would fight in cornrows, inside wood huts and beyond, extending the fight to the nearby mountains outside the district center, according to an Army release<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo describe that terrain as anything less than extreme would be an understatement<\/a>,\u201d said Lt. Col. Scott Horrigan, former 1-32 infantry commander.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Horrigan was recalling those details because on Wednesday, a dozen years after that coordinated attack, Holroyd was awarded the Silver Star Medal<\/a> for his actions at a small ceremony at the division\u2019s home \u2014 Fort Drum, New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The now-retired sniper team leader rushed through enemy fields of gunfire during the attack on the battalion headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\t