![]() ![]() … He’s one of so many people cut from the same cloth. ![]() “He took control and owned it and took the fight to them. ![]() It just happens he was assigned that team on that night and he did what he had to do,” Longfritz said in a recent interview. “John wasn’t an anomaly in the Combat Control community. The full story is told in the new book, "Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force" (Grand Central Publishing, 352 pages), a work Chapman's sister Lori Chapman Longfritz and her co-author Dan Schilling hope will shine a light not only on Chapman’s selfless actions but the broader elite unit - the Air Force’s Combat Control - he served and believed in. It would take 16 years and the tireless efforts of John Chapman’s family to bring those heroic events to light. SALT LAKE CITY - In the early days of the War on Terror, a member of an elite Air Force unit single-handedly took on more than two dozen hardened fighters while mortally wounded and ultimately saved not only the lives of his team, but of an incoming rescue squad. ![]()
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