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Charles Wyckoff
Recipient of the "Cross"
2nd Highest Military Honor

President George W. Bush comforts the wife of Sgt. Charles Wyckoff, 3rd Platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, during the 82nd Abn. Div's review on May 22, 2008 at Fort Bragg, N.C. Erika Wyckoff and their two children, of Fayetteville, N.C., accepted the Distinguished Service Cross on her husband's behalf for his actions June 6, 2007, during Operation Enduring Freedom.  While engaged in close combat against enemy forces, Wyckoff left his covered position without hesitation to force other members of his team to take cover. Wyckoff revealed his position and fatally engaged two insurgents to save the lives of his platoon. Wyckoff enlisted in the Army in June 2004 and was from Chula Vista, Calif.
Photo by Sgt. Timothy Dinneen

 Sgt. Charles Wyckoff, Distinguished Service Cross recipient (posthomous)

President George W. Bush comforts the wife of Sgt. Charles Wyckoff, 3rd Platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, during the 82nd Abn. Div's review on May 22, 2008 at Fort Bragg, N.C. Erika Wyckoff and their two children, of Fayetteville, N.C., accepted the Distinguished Service Cross on her husband's behalf for his actions June 6, 2007, during
Operation Enduring Freedom . . . While engaged in close combat against enemy forces, Wyckoff left his covered position without hesitation to force other members of his team to take cover. Wyckoff revealed his position and fatally engaged two insurgents to save the lives of his platoon. Wyckoff enlisted in the Army in June 2004 and was from Chula Vista, Calif.
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