22 Facts About Ty Carter

Ty Carter was awarded the United States Armed Forces' highest military honor for his actions during the 2009 Battle of Kamdesh in Afghanistan.

Ty Carter enlisted in the United States Marine Corps October 13,1998, and attended the Marine Corps Combat Engineer School.

Ty Carter later served in Okinawa, Japan, as an intelligence clerk.

Ty Carter showed promise in weapons' marksmanship and was sent to Primary Marksmanship Instructor School in 1999.

Ty Carter served two short training deployments; one to San Clemente Island, California, and the other to Egypt, for Operation Bright Star.

Ty Carter was honorably discharged from the Marine Corps on 12 October 2002.

Ty Carter enlisted in the United States Army in January 2008 as a cavalry scout and received training at Fort Knox, Kentucky.

In October 2010, Ty Carter was assigned as a Stryker gunner with the 8th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.

Ty Carter was deployed to Afghanistan a second time in October 2012 and was thereafter stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord with the 7th Infantry Division.

Ty Carter then crawled under continuing fire to another vehicle, and retrieved needed weapons and ammunition to bring back to the Battle Position.

Ty Carter crossed 30 meters of open space to provide life-extending first aid to a wounded soldier, exposed to enemy fire, then carrying him back across the 30 meters to the Humvee.

Ty Carter found a litter, and with a comrade carried the wounded soldier 100 meters across the original distance to an aid station; it was then about noon.

Ty Carter is authorized to wear two service stripes, three Overseas Service Bars, as well as the Combat Service Identification Badge for the 4th Infantry Division and the Distinctive Unit Insignia of the 61st Cavalry Regiment.

Specialist Ty Carter reinforced a forward battle position, ran twice through a 100 meter gauntlet of enemy fire to resupply ammunition and voluntarily remained there to defend the isolated position.

Armed with only an M4 carbine rifle, Specialist Ty Carter placed accurate, deadly fire on the enemy, beating back the assault force and preventing the position from being overrun, over the course of several hours.

Specialist Ty Carter rendered life extending first aid and carried the Soldier to cover.

On his own initiative, Specialist Ty Carter again maneuvered through enemy fire to check on a fallen Soldier and recovered the squad's radio, which allowed them to coordinate their evacuation with fellow Soldiers.

Ty Carter was born in Spokane, Washington, on January 25,1980, to Mark and Paula Ty Carter, and moved to California's Bay Area in 1981.

Ty Carter later settled in Antioch, California until he enlisted in the US Marine Corps.

Ty Carter is the stepfather of Jayden Young, Shannon's son from a previous relationship.

On July 13,2000, his older brother, Seth Allen Ty Carter, was shot in the chest and killed by a drunk person, who was playing with a shotgun during a party in Spokane, Washington.

Ty Carter is featured in Medal of Honor Season 1, Episode 8.