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Brendan O'Connor (United States Army)
Sergeant Major Brendan W. O'Connor (born ca. 1960) is a Special Forces medical sergeant in the United States Army. On April 30, 2008 he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his heroic action in Afghanistan.〔(''MilitaryTimes'' Hall of Valor )〕 The DSC is the nation's second highest award for valor (after the Medal of Honor) and this was only the second time since the Vietnam War that the medal was awarded.
==Early life==
Brendan W. O'Connor was born at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, the fifth of six children, to LTC Mortimer O'Connor and Elizabeth O'Connor. After his father died in combat in Vietnam, the family settled in Moorestown Township, New Jersey.〔(Proclamation honoring Master Sergeant Brendan O'Connor by the Township Council of Moorestown Township )〕 Brendan enlisted in the United States Army Reserves (USAR) and enrolled in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at Valley Forge Military Junior College at Wayne, Pennsylvania in 1978. He was commissioned in 1980 and served as the Executive Officer of a Special Forces Team, later as a Rifle Platoon Leader and Rifle Company Commander, and then as a Team commander.〔 〕
In 1994, he resigned his commission in the Reserves and enlisted in the Active Army to become a Special Forces medical sergeant.〔 In 2005, he deployed to Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom as a medical sergeant and a team's Operations Sergeant.〔
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