Grown Man Work, another Military Hero

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In March 2013, Sheridan was preparing for a mission with his Army Special Forces team when an Afghan National Police Officer working with the team opened fire from a machine gun at 25 feet. The teammates to Sheridan's immediate left and right were hit.

Puffs of smoke blew up around him. When he realized what was happening, his first instinct was to grab his team leader and get him out, he said.

As he turned to react, Sheridan saw his team leader shot in the head at close range.

At the same time, a group of about 20 insurgents fired on the team from a position outside of the base in what was a coordinated attack.

To Sheridan the insider attack was like "having someone sneak into your house in the middle of the night." It provoked an instantaneous reaction.

He ran toward the shooter, jumped into the turret of an armored vehicle and shot him twice with his pistol and nine times with an M4 rifle.

One by one, he dragged his team leader, team sergeant and the infantry squad noncommissioned officer in charge to an area where they could be extracted by medevac.

Sheridan, 33, called in six medevac flights and helped transfer his wounded teammates to litters while controlling aircraft overhead.

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