Ken Nelson

10 Green Berets are being awarded the Silver Star for actions during a single battle in Afghanistan:

A harrowing, nearly seven-hour battle unfolded on that mountainside in Afghanistan’s Nuristan province on April 6, as Walton, his team and a few dozen Afghan commandos they had trained took fire from all directions. Outnumbered, the Green Berets fought on even after half of them were wounded — four critically — and managed to subdue an estimated 150 to 200 insurgents, according to interviews with several team members and official citations.

Subdue means kill, BTW.

A more detailed description of the battle.

Here is a in-flight medic that I suspect may get an even higher medal:

A medical evacuation helicopter flew in, but the rotors were immediately hit by bullets, so the pilot hovered just long enough to allow the in-flight medic to jump off, then flew away.

Details on each soldier are here.