 The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Bronze Star Medal to Master Sergeant Kevin W. Hanschild, Marine Air Traffic Control Mobile Team Leader with Marine Medium Tilt Rotor Squadron 162 Reinforced 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit in support of Operation Freedom Sentinel from 15 August 2021 to 17 August 2021. On 15 August 2021, the situation at Himeid Karzai International Airport deteriorated and contracted air traffic controllers reposition to coalition lines in the north side of the airfield admits a disorganized period of uncontrolled departures. During the chaos, an Afghan Air Force Cessna boarded in takeoff, fouling the runway, and Master Sergeant Hanschild left the alternate tower to clear the obstruction. Upon his return, civilian staff notified him that their radio batteries were low on power, but they had forgotten their charging system where they stranded Afghan controller in the primary tower surrounded by unknown personnel. Master Sergeant Hanschild voluntarily obtained transportation, crossed the flight line with a team, and extracted the Afghan controller and radio equipment. While driving back to coalition lines, hostile small arms fire originating outside the Abbey Gate struck his vehicle. His bold actions singularly enabled the Joint Task Force to build the combat power required for years and years to come. And this recognition is extremely important for somebody who made such a critical impact in that moment. Not only just world history, but Marine Corps after actions, DOD, lessons learned, things we're going to extract from this evacuation, going to operations and make us successful for the future in events that we run into. It's no surprise that you're able to accomplish what you were able to. Just in the short time I've known you, your professionalism, your preparation, the way you approach your job, your leadership is outstanding. And when preparation and leadership meet opportunity, outstanding things happen. All right, I'll keep it short. I don't have a whole lot to say. Everybody just want to let everybody know. Thank you for showing up. My wife, thank you. I'm very humbled, very honored to receive this award. It's a tribute to the team that I took out there with me. You've got one with you here. Another one is Sergeant Christ, who's also out there with me, who's a part of the HNHS team. He'll be PCing over here with us soon. So it'll be a pretty good day when that happens. But I really want to thank the team that unfortunately is not able to be here. But I attribute this to them. So thank you guys for coming out. I appreciate it. Commanders, thank you.