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Silver Star Recipient Master Sgt. Green Beret Tony Pryor: On January 23, 2002, Pryor's company received an order to conduct their combat mission of two compounds suspected of harboring Taliban and al Qaeda terrorists. Sgt. Neil was one of the team members there with Pryor that night at the second compound. A SF weapons sergeant he fought on Pryor's team as a cell leader and found himself momentarily pinned down by the sudden hail of bullets after the team's position was compromised. "After the initial burst of automatic weapons fire, we returned fire in the breezeway," Neil said. Moments later though the team became separated in the confusion, but with the situation desperate for the Special Forces soldiers against a determined and larger than expected enemy Pryor and one of his teammates kept moving forward room to room. They began to enter a room together but another enemy soldier outside the room distracted the team member, so he stayed outside to return fire. Pryor first encountered an enemy that was charging out of the room and assisted in eliminating him. Without hesitation Pryor moved into the room and found himself alone with three more enemy soldiers. The next two enemies he saw were firing their weapons out of the back of the room at his men that were still outside the compound. "I went in and there were some windows that they were trying to get their guns out of to shoot at our guys that hadn't caught up yet" he said. "So I went from left to right and shot those guys up. I realized that I was well into halfway through my magazine, so I started to change magazines. Then I felt something behind me and thought it was one of my teammates that's when things started going downhill." Pryor said it was an enemy soldier, a larger than normal Afghan who had snuck up on him. "There was a guy back behind me, and he whopped me on the shoulder with something, and crumpled me down." Pryor would later learn that he had sustained a broken clavicle and a dislocated shoulder during the attack. "Then he jumped up on my back broke my night-vision goggles off and starting getting his fingers in my eyeballs. I pulled him over, and when I hit down on the ground, it popped my shoulder back in." Pryor said that after he stood up, he was face to face with his attacker. Pryor eliminated the man during their hand-to-hand struggle. Pryor had now put down all four enemies, but the fight wasn't over yet. "I was trying to feel around in the dark for my night-vision goggles, and that's when the guys I'd already killed decided that they weren't dead yet." Pryor said that it was then a race to see who could get their weapons up first, and the enemy soldiers lost. He then left the room and rejoined the firefight outside. When the battle ended 21 enemy soldiers had been killed. There were no American causalities. Leading his soldiers despite his injuries is something Neil said that Pryor couldn't seem to stop doing. #Greenberets #Specialforces #Military #USArmy