SFC Cashe, 35, who served with Company A, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division outside Samarra city Iraq on October 17, 2005, when his Bradley Fighting Vehicle ran over an improvised explosive device that ripped through the BFV and ignited the fuel cell.
Without regard for his personal safety, SFC Cashe pulled the driver from the vehicle after having already suffered minor injuries, and then rushed back inside three times to extract six trapped soldiers and their Iraqi interpreter as his own fuel-soaked uniform caught fire, his posthumous Silver Star award citation reads
Cashe suffered 2nd and 3rd-degree burns over 72% of his body and succumbed to his injuries three weeks later at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas.
This has taken entirely to long for this award to be bestowed upon one of the finest NCO’s in the U.S. Army, an NCO that put the needs of his Soldiers above his own without question.
Till Valhalla
