Staff. Sgt. Gallegos's son MacAiden and his mother Amanda, speak to U.S Army Col. Jason J. Jones, commander of the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, U.S. Army Alaska and Command Sgt. Maj. Joseph J. Hissong, senior enlisted advisor for the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4-25 IBCT(A), USARAK, following Gallegos’s Distinguished Service Cross ceremony at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska Dec. 15, 2018. Gallegos was posthumously awarded the nation’s second highest honor for valor for actions during the battle of Kamdesh in Afghanistan Oct.

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Staff. Sgt. Gallegos's son MacAiden and his mother Amanda, speak to U.S Army Col. Jason J. Jones, commander of the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, U.S. Army Alaska and Command Sgt. Maj. Joseph J. Hissong, senior enlisted advisor for the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4-25 IBCT(A), USARAK, following Gallegos’s Distinguished Service Cross ceremony at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska Dec. 15, 2018. Gallegos was posthumously awarded the nation’s second highest honor for valor for actions during the battle of Kamdesh in Afghanistan Oct. 3, 2009.