![]() ![]() The grenade detonated shortly after Staff Sergeant Petry threw it away from his fellow Rangers resulting in a catastrophic amputation of his right hand and multiple shrapnel wounds penetrating his body. Shortly thereafter, an enemy hand grenade landed amid Staff Sergeant Petry and two other Rangers despite his serious leg wounds, Staff Sergeant Petry unhesitatingly moved to the grenade, grabbed it, and immediately threw the armed grenade away from his fellow Rangers. During the initial engagement, Staff Sergeant Petry was shot through both legs and another Ranger was hit by enemy fire. Petry, as a member of a Ranger helicopter assault force conducting a daylight rotary wing raid in the vicinity of Paktya, Afghanistan, distinguished himself conspicuously and with gallantry and intrepidness, by risking his life above and beyond the call of duty, during an extremely close and violent engagement with an extraordinarily determined and well armed enemy. Official Narrative Staff Sergeant Leroy A. ![]()
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