[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Former Army Staff Sgt Ronald Shurer II received the Medal of Honor in 2018
- His wife, Miranda, said Shurer died of cancer at a hospital on Thursday, aged 41
- Shurer was senior medical sergeant in special forces in April 2008, when his team encountered machine gun and sniper fire and grenades from militants
- He stabilized one soldier, then fought his way amid gunfire up a mountain to the lead members of the unit and treated and stabilized four more soldiers
- Shurer then lowered the wounded down a steep mountainside during evacuation
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