Two Green Berets receive Silver Star medals

[Dan]

FORT CAMPBELL Two Green Berets who carried wounded comrades out of danger in Iraq have been awarded Silver Stars.

The medals are the Army's third highest award for actions in combat.

At a ceremony at Fort Campbell today, they were pinned on 37-year-old Master Sergeant David Miles, of Powellton, West Virginia, and 40-year-old Master Sergeant Kelly Mahon, of Virgil, Kansas.

Miles killed or directed the killing of up to 20 Saddam loyalists on April Seventh, 2003, at a bridge south of Baghdad.

He also was credited with treating two wounded soldiers and dragging them out of danger.

Mahon was said to have pulled a soldier wounded by a grenade under crossfire in Ar Ramadi, on September Eleventh, 2003. The Army said he later exposed himself to enemy fire to throw a grenade that killed an al-Qaida terrorist.