For his actions during the battle, Major Mark E. Mitchell, a U.S. Army Special Forces officer, was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the first such decoration to be awarded since the Vietnam War. Additionally, a U.S. Navy corpsman, Chief Petty Officer Stephen Bass, was awarded the Navy Cross to for his actions while attached to the British Special Boat Service.</ref> Bass' Navy Cross was the first navy cross awarded since Operation Just Cause. A biography of Bass can be found within the book "The Navy Cross: Extraordinary Heroism in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Conflicts".</ref>