WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump presented an Army Ranger who helped rescue dozens of hostages facing execution at the hands of ISIS fighters in Iraq with the Medal of Honor on Friday – on the anniversary of the Sept.
11, 2001 attacks.Sgt. Maj. Thomas “Patrick” Payne was initially given the Army’s second-highest award, the Distinguished Service Cross, for the special operations raid, which has been upgraded to a Medal of Honor.READ MORE: Medal of Honor recipient dies; saved lives in AfghanistanThe medal honors Payne's actions in a daring predawn raid on Oct.
22, 2015. Seeking to rescue 70 Islamic State hostages, American and Kurdish commandos flew in CH-47 Chinook helicopters to the town of Huwija, located roughly nine miles west of the.