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Written by: Nathaniel Tok, Peak Associate   Secret service agent awarded medal of honor Staff Sergeant Ronald J. Shurer II, a US Army Special Forces Medic, Secret Service agent, and cancer patient, has been awarded the US Military's highest award for valor, the Medal of Honor. Shurer II won the award for his actions in Afghanistan in April 2008 where he risked his life and sustained injuries to treat at least fourteen others -  four wounded US soldiers and ten Afghan commandos. Shurer later joined the Secret Service in September 2009 and was diagnosed with cancer in 2017. He is…

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