article_snippet: Meyer was awarded the Medal of Honor in 2011 after repeatedly charging into a kill zone during a 2009 ambush in Kunar Province, Afghanistan in search of four of Meyer missing soldiers.
article_snippet: American hero: Meyer was awarded the Medal of Honor by Barack Obama in 2011 after repeatedly charging into a kill zone during a 2009 ambush in Kunar Province, Afghanistan in search of four missing soldiers .
article_snippet: He was able to rescue 36 troops and kill eight Taliban attackers despite being shot in the arms.
article_snippet: Although He did not save the four men He set out to find, He recovered the four men he set out to find bodies and brought each of the four men he set out to find to safety.