Jeff Ingram

The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star Medal to Jeff Ingram, Lieutenant Colonel (Armor), U.S. Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action while serving as Commanding Officer of 2d Battalion, 70th Armored Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, during combat operations in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, on 31 March 2003, in Iraq. During the battle to secure Al Hillah, Iraq, on 31 March 2003, Lieutenant Colonel Ingram’s unit, attached 101st Airborne Division, was moving on the city to divert the enemy’s attention from the 3rd Infantry Division so they could move forward to Karbala. Colonel Ingram’s unit encountered dismounted forces and artillery and rocket propelled grenades from a Republican Guard battalion. Colonel Ingram calmly and skillfully directed the efforts of a combined arms task force in destroying the Iraqi battalion as multiple rocket propelled grenades bounced off his tank, massed artillery fire exploded all around and intense small arms fire was directed at him.