WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump will present 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 is now being upgraded to a Medal of Honor.READ MORE: Medal of Honor recipient dies; saved lives in AfghanistanThe medal will honor 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.