Trump Awards Medal of Honor to 2 Pilots at State of the Union Address

In a historic first, President Donald Trump used his State of the Union address as an opportunity to award the highest U.S. military valor decoration, the Medal of Honor. The president recognized not one but two veterans of military aviation: Army Chief Warrant Officer 5 Eric Slover, and retired Navy fighter pilot Royce Williams. Slover piloted a CH-47 Chinook troop transport helicopter through machine-gun fire during the Jan. 3 raid to capture wanted Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Williams flew a F-9F Panther during a lengthy dogfight against multiple Soviet MiG-15 fighter jets during a mission near North Korea on Nov. 18, 1952....