Dan Hibner

The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star Medal to Dan Hibner, Captain (Corps of Engineers), U.S. Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action while serving as Commanding Officer of Company A, 10th Engineer Battalion, 3d Infantry Division, during combat operations in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, on 7 April 2003, in Iraq. When the 3d Infantry Division conducted the final attack on Baghdad, Captain Hibner’s unit was a lead element, attacking to breach obstacles on the only feasible avenues of approach that led into the city center and Saddam’s Palaces, establishing a deliberate breach from the west.