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Neil C. Roberts

1969–2002

Aviation Boatswain’s Mate First Class (SEAL); Naval Special Warfare Development Group

U.S. Navy; SEAL Team Two; SEAL Team Six / DEVGRU; Battle of Takur Ghar (Roberts Ridge), Operation Anaconda, Paktia Province, Afghanistan, 4 Mar 2002

Documented decorations

Neil C. Roberts’s Silver Star, Bronze Star Medal with Valor, and Purple Heart are named in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ #VeteranOfTheDay profile of his Naval Special Warfare service at Takur Ghar. This decorations page records those three types from that VA sentence. It will not invent oak-leaf counts the paragraph does not carry. (The VA narrative misstates the calendar year of the battle as 2004; Hall of Valor and the public Operation Anaconda record place his death on 4 March 2002.)

Born 16 August 1969 and raised in Woodland, California, Roberts enlisted after high school, earned his Trident with Class 184, served with SEAL Team Two, and joined SEAL Team Six in 1999. On 4 March 2002 during Operation Anaconda he was thrown from an MH-47 Chinook onto Takur Ghar, fought from an exposed position, and was killed by enemy fire—the engagement later known as the Battle of Roberts Ridge. The Silver Star, Bronze Star Medal with Valor, and Purple Heart are the published decoration names here.

This name is not yet on a war-roll essay. The decorations above are the documented public record this register will stand on until that essay is written.

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