WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald Trump awards the Medal of Honor to Master Chief Special Warfare Operator Britt K. Slabinski during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 24, 2018. A Northampton native, who graduated from Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School in 1988, Slabinski oversaw a daring 2002 assault and rescue mission on a snowy Afghanistan mountaintop and carried a “seriously wounded teammate down a sheer cliff face” while leading “an arduous trek across one kilometer of precipitous terrain, through waist-deep snow while continuing to call fire on the enemy.”
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