Capt. Andrew Kim, intelligence officer, Marine Corps Tactics and Operations Group, thanks his family after receiving the Silver Star Medal at Sunset Cinema aboard the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif. May 18, 2017. Kim’s Bronze Star Medal was upgraded to a Silver Star Medal, the third-highest personal decoration for valor in combat, through an initiative from the Department of Defense to review valor awards for actions after Sept. 11, 2001.

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