12/21/2024
Please welcome Cashe to our group, being raised by Traci and Jay McLennan. Cashe 1BB24 is now 12 weeks old. Cashe is named for Sergant Fist Class Alwyn Cashe from Central Florida. The President of the United States of America, in 2021 posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor to Sergeant First Class Alwyn C. Cashe, United States Army, for conspicuous gallantry at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. On October 17, 2005, near Samarra, Iraq, Cashe’s Bradley Fighting Vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device. Cashe retrieved six Soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter from the burning vehicle, receiving burns on nearly 72% of his body. Alwyn Cashe died on Nov. 8, 2005, at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas.