After taking a bullet in the helmet, he shot his enemy and disrupted Taliban ambush

Master Sgt. Sarun Sar takes a break on a mountainside in Afghanistan. Sar, a native of Cambodia, was awarded a Silver Star after he slowed a Taliban ambush in 2005. (Photo courtesy of Sarun Sar)

Sarun Sar
U.S. Army / Silver Star

By Kevin Maurer
AmericanValor.net

He is no stranger to war.

Sarun Sar’s first combat experience came in his native Cambodia, where he fought with anti-Vietnamese guerrillas. But when the Vietnamese invaded, his family was split up. His father died in prison, his brother was executed for smuggling weapons for anti-government guerrillas and his mother and two other brothers died from starvation.

Sar ended up on the western side of the country, where he was wounded several times and eventually sent to a refugee camp in Thailand.

There, he met up with his older sister and eventually moved to the United States. Sar gained his citizenship while in the Army and has deployed all over the world with Special Forces to places such as Bosnia, Kosovo, Africa, Colombia and Afghanistan.

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