A Rare Honor: Battlefield Promotion Under the Guns of Mosul

 

While we remember the fallen of the 82nd Signal Battalion lineage, we pause to celebrate valor in action. Read the extraordinary story of Staff Sergeant Jeremy R. Penderman, a paratrooper of the 2nd BCT, 82nd Airborne Division, who earned a rare Battlefield Promotion during the intense 2017 fight for West Mosul—a distinction pinned by a Two-Star General on the front lines.