Thomas Patrick Payne is a United States Army Delta Force sergeant major and instructor. He was awarded the Medal of Honor on September 11, 2020, for his actions on October 22, 2015, during a hostage rescue at an Islamic State prison compound. The joint operation, conducted with the Kurdish CTG, resulted in the rescue of 70 Iraqi prisoners with one American casualty, Delta Force Master Sergeant Joshua Wheeler.
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Thomas Patrick Payne is a United States Army Delta Force sergeant major and instructor. He was awarded the Medal of Honor on September 11, 2020, for his actions on October 22, 2015, during a hostage rescue at an Islamic State prison compound in the north of the town of Hawija, Kirkuk Province, Iraq. The joint operation, conducted with the Kurdish CTG, resulted in the rescue of 70 Iraqi prisoners with one American casualty, Delta Force Master Sergeant Joshua Wheeler. Payne has been deployed 17 times in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom,Operation New Dawn, Operation Inherent Resolve, and Operation Resolute Support. He is the third Delta Force recipient after Master Sergeant Gary Gordon and Sergeant First Class Randy Shughart who died in the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu.
Payne is the first living Delta Force member to receive the Medals of Honor. His wife, Alison, is a nurse who served at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Long Island, where she helped care for patients during the COVID-19 outbreak between April and May 2020. They met at Lake Murray while he was recovering from his wounds in South Carolina from a grenade blast in Afghanistan in 2010. His father is a police officer, and he has two brothers, one of whom also serves in the Army and the other in the United States Air Force. He graduated from Norwich University in 2017 with a Bachelor of Science degree in strategic studies and defense analysis, where he lives with his wife and three children.
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