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Travis Atkins, who was posthumously awarded the medal last month.

Ronald Shurer, a medic who received the medal in October 2018 and Army Staff Sgt. John Chapman, who was posthumously awarded the medal in August 2018 former Army Sgt. Those awarded the Medal of Honor as a result of the review include former Senior Chief Petty Officer Britt Slabinski, a former member of SEAL Team 6 who received the award in May 2018 fallen Air Force Tech. Several Army awards are still in the review process and have yet to be announced, officials said. The upgraded awards included four Medals of Honor, including two for the famous 2002 Battle of Roberts Ridge in Afghanistan 30 service crosses and 23 Silver Stars. In all, officials said, some 1,400 awards were reviewed - ranging from Bronze Stars with Valor to service crosses - and 57 medals were ultimately upgraded. The Pentagon's medals review was launched in 2016 under then-Defense Secretary Ashton Carter out of concern that, due to inconsistency or lack of knowledge in the process, some troops who served in post-9/11 conflicts might be missing out on honors they were due. So we're putting this additional review in." "And at a lower level, there are so few folks that do get the highest level of recognition that they might not be as familiar with it from a command perspective. "The view is, at the highest levels is where you would see more of these higher-level awards," Mulcahy told.