A former Army medic who received the nation’s highest military honor on Oct. 1 for braving heavy gunfire to save lives in Afghanistan was rejected by the military the first time he tried to enlist.
“I can’t believe they rejected you. Boy that was a bad mistake. But they made up for it, right,” President Donald Trump told former Staff Sgt. Ronald Shurer II at a formal White House ceremony where 250 people gathered to laud Shurer for his heroic actions in 2008 in a remote part of Afghanistan.
