Michael A. Monsoor

Michael Monsoor is one of those people whose story stops you cold the moment you hear it. A kid from Long Beach, California who became a Navy SEAL, and on September 29, 2006, during the Battle of Ramadi, a grenade landed on the roof where he and his teammates were positioned. He could have rolled off the roof and survived. Instead, he threw himself on it. He died about 30 minutes later, but his teammates lived. He was 25 years old. The Medal of Honor he received posthumously is the highest military decoration the United States awards, and it's given out extraordinarily rarely — and almost never for something this clear-cut and deliberate. I don't have a clever take here. Some people just make a choice in a single second that says everything about who they are, and Michael Monsoor made his.

Name (English)

Michael A. Monsoor

Name (Japanese)

マイケル・A・モンスーア

Reading

まいける・A・もんすーあ

Born

April 5, 1981 – September 29, 2006

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Rooster

Origin

Long Beach, California, United States

Occupation

military personnel

High school

Garden Grove High School

Awards & achievements

• Bronze Star Medal
• Medal of Honor
• Purple Heart
• Silver Star
• Combat Action Ribbon
• Good Conduct Medal
• Global War on Terrorism Service Medal
• Iraq Campaign Medal

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%A2

Tags

• California
• military personnel

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.