Rogers is scheduled to receive the 2021 Air Force Sergeants Association Pitsenbarger Award in July for treating seven people after an explosion at a Taliban weapons site.
Michael Rogers, a pararescueman who treated seven people wounded in the 2019 blast, later found to be the result of a partner force member’s negligent weapon discharge.
Rogers, now with the 57th Rescue Squadron at Aviano Air Base in Italy, is scheduled to receive the 2021 Air Force Sergeants Association William H.
Rogers’ experience as a mountain guide and paramedic in Wyoming suited him well when he joined the Air Force in October 2014, weeks after his honeymoon.
Locals told them a school nearby was a Taliban headquarters, and there the U.S.
The Air Force statement did not name the Green Beret who died and officials at Aviano Air Base, where Rogers serves, could not provide further information.
Goble, of Bergen County, N.J., was a member of 1st Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group , based at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.
An investigation would later rule that a partner forces member’s accidental weapon discharge into the RPG stockpile caused the blast, the Air Force said, providing few details.
“Everybody that was there was passionate about their job and doing it right,” he said.