FORT JACKSON, S.C. -- John Hawes remembers with vivid clarity the hail of gunfire and rocket propelled grenades that rained down on his position on a ridgeline in Gowardesh, Nuristan Province ...

On June 18, 2006 Army Sgt. 1st Class Jared Monti led 16 fellow soldiers on a mission up a mountainside into enemy territory near Gowardesh in northeastern Afghanistan. The soldiers, all forward ...

in Gowardesh, Afghanistan, near the border with Pakistan. Monti was posthumously promoted to sergeant first class. His name is slated to be enrolled among other Medal of Honor recipients at the ...