Larry Reis

The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star Medal to Larry Reis, First Sergeant, U.S. Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action while serving with the 1st Battalion, 3d Special Forces Group (Airborne), during combat operations in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, on 10 and 11 October 2005, in Afghanistan. First Sergeant Reis was leading a combined Afghan national army patrol in Uruzgan Province in Afghanistan when he was attacked by about 150 insurgents in three locations. He relied on tactics that placed him between the enemy and his men in order to repel the numerically superior enemy force.