Army Brig. Gen. Warren E Phipps, Regional Command-East and Combined Joint Task Force-101 assistants division commander-support, pins a Purple Heart onto the shirt of Army Sgt. Matthew Macke, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at the Heathe N. Craig Joint Theater Hospital, Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, April 30. Macke, a member of Company C, 1st Battalion, 168th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 34th Infantry Division, Task Force Lethal, was driving the lead vehicle of a mounted combat patrol when an improvised explosive device detonated under his truck April 27. (Photo by Army Sgt. Brian Max

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Army Brig. Gen. Warren E Phipps, Regional Command-East and Combined Joint Task Force-101 assistants division commander-support, pins a Purple Heart onto the shirt of Army Sgt. Matthew Macke, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at the Heathe N. Craig Joint Theater Hospital, Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, April 30. Macke, a member of Company C, 1st Battalion, 168th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 34th Infantry Division, Task Force Lethal, was driving the lead vehicle of a mounted combat patrol when an improvised explosive device detonated under his truck April 27. (Photo by Army Sgt. Brian Maxon, Task Force Lethal Public Affairs) TF Lethal soldiers earn Purple Heart 398980

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