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Medal of Honor recipient Sal Giunta to leave military
Medal of Honor recipient Sal Giunta to leave military
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Giunta has decided not to sign a contract for continued service in the U.S. Army, public affairs officer Todd Oliver told The Des Moines Register Tuesday.
The popular 26-year-old Hiawatha native has been the face of the Afghanistan war since President Obama presented him with the nation's highest military award in November.
"SSG Giunta's military service will end on or about 13 June," Oliver wrote in an e-mail from Italy.
Giunta is a noncommissioned officer in the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade. He is currently assigned to a base in Vincenza, Italy, called Caserma Ederle, where he aids military operations in Afghanistan.
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He has handled his new fame with humility and reluctance. Giunta has said the praise for his actions was hard to swallow because two of his friends were killed in the ambush in October 2007.
"It's kind of an awkward situation," Giunta told the Register in a telephone interview in October 2010. "Every single person I was with would have done what I did, possibly even better, but they were doing other things. So for a medal to be awarded to me for actions that are 'above and beyond,' sometimes it's hard for me to stomach hearing that."
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Salute, SSG Giunta.
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