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Nigeria's Ademola Fabayo has been given the second highest honour of the United States' military. Fabayo, an immigrant US Navy Captain, shared the honour with another immigrant from Mexico, Staff Sgt. Juan Rodriguez-Chavez Both Marines are being regarded by the US as "heroes of a rare order." On Friday, United States Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus presented both men with the Navy Cross during a ceremony at the National Museum of the Marine Corps. The Navy Cross is the second-highest award for valour in the military, surpassed only by the Medal of Honour.

It was gathered that  both were on a mission with two platoons of Afghan troops and some other U.S. Marine and Army trainers to meet village elders in Ganjgal, Afghanistan, on September 8, 2009. They knew the village was in a dangerous valley. "The valley, which is located very close to the Pakistani border, is a known approach route for insurgents," Mabus said at the awards ceremony. Their fears were realised when some 50 Taliban fighters attacked their column......


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