Charles Good

The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star Medal to Charles Good, Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action while serving with Special Operational Detachment Alpha 531 (ODA-531), 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), during combat operations in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, near Sadah, Iraq, on 21 October 2003. Staff Sergeant Good and his team were on a mission to halt foreign fighters who were infiltrating Iraq from Syria. Their convoy drove into the enemy-friendly town of Sadah when one of the vehicles was hit by a RPG. Eight members of the team went after the enemy fighters, while Staff Sergeant Good and two others provided security. A soldier was hit, and Staff Sergeant Good provided cover fire while the injured soldier was loaded into the vehicle. Staff Sergeant Good’s vehicle was disabled, but he negotiated with an Iraqi man in a run-down Toyota to drive them to the camp. After dropping off the wounded soldier, Staff Sergeant Good returned to the fight along with other soldiers to assist those still trapped in the village.