Michael A. Monsoor

1981–2006

Master-at-Arms Second Class (SEAL)

SEAL Team 3; Ar Ramadi, September 29, 2006

Documented decorations

Purple Heart
Killed on the Ramadi rooftop. The Purple Heart follows those wounds.
Public sources
- Congressional Medal of Honor Society — Michael A. Monsoor
- U.S. Navy — Medal of Honor recipient Michael A. Monsoor
Bronze Star Medal
Navy biography: Bronze Star as Task Unit Ramadi combat advisor, April–September 2006. Distinct from the Medal of Honor.
Public sources
- U.S. Navy — Medal of Honor recipient Michael A. Monsoor
Silver Star
May 9, 2006 — ran into the street under fire and dragged a wounded SEAL to safety. Distinct from the September rooftop.
Public sources
- Congressional Medal of Honor Society — Michael A. Monsoor
- U.S. Navy — Medal of Honor recipient Michael A. Monsoor

Michael Anthony Monsoor’s Medal of Honor is the Ramadi rooftop on September 29, 2006. The Navy’s published biography also names a Silver Star from May 9 of that deployment, a Bronze Star Medal for service as Task Unit Ramadi combat advisor, and the Purple Heart that follows the grenade.

Those are separate writings. This page will not fold the May morning into the September medal, and it will not invent a combat “V” the Navy page does not print. He is buried at Fort Rosecrans. A destroyer carries the name. Neither fact is a second citation.

He is on the Iraq roll. The decorations row there follows the Navy list. Interim awards upgraded to the Medal of Honor are not listed as if they were still worn; the Silver Star here is the earlier, distinct award the Navy still names.

A longer service essay is on the American War Heroes roll. That page does not invent medals. This page does not replace it.

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