The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918 (amended by an act of July 25, 1963), takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Sergeant Patrick Scott Jordan, United States Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action while serving with Company C, 2d Battalion, 37th Armored Regiment, 1st Armored Division, in action against the enemy in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, in Iraq. Sergeant Jordan distinguished himself far above and beyond the call of duty at great risk to his own life during the company attack against elements of the Mahdi Army in Sadr City on 4 April 2004. During a day of constant attacks by the Mahdi Army, Sergeant Jordan’s intrepid leadership and bravery were key in evacuating 19 infantrymen from 2d Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment that had been isolated and in contact for three hours. Sergeant Jordan served as the tank commander of C66 when his company commander moved to another tank due to communications problems. Despite never having served as a tank commander, and without any radio communications, Sergeant Jordan commanded his tank during a brilliant four-hour attack with a wounded loader from another tank crew and his normal loader serving in the gunner’s position. With a minimum of verbal guidance from the commander prior to the attack, Sergeant Jordan commanded his tank bravely from his open hatch during the entire attack as well as the relief and non-standard casualty evacuation of the infantry platoon. Sergeant Jordan ensured his gunner fought the tank properly, managed his sectors of fire, and provided security at the rear of a company staggered combat column through extremely compartmented urban terrain in which his company was constantly assailed from the flanks by hundreds of enemy with both small arms and RPG fire. Sergeant Jordan checked his gunner’s work ensuring proper fire control and discipline in an environment very dangerous for fratricide while fighting out of hatch with every weapon at his disposal at extremely close quarters through four kilometers of stubbornly defended urban terrain. Upon arrival at the location of the isolated infantry platoon, Sergeant Jordan personally emplaced his tank within the company defensive perimeter without the ability to hear guidance relative to the establishment of the defense. When the company commander coordinated the non-standard casualty evacuation of the platoon, Sergeant Jordan occupied one of the most contentious pieces of terrain in the that firefight, destroying enemy as close as 30 meters away who attacked the casualty evacuation effort, killing several enemy personally from the tank commander’s override using coax machinegun fire. As the company departed the evacuation location, Sergeant Jordan covered the initial attack of the company with fires from his tank and moved last in order of march behind the third and final functional HMMWV of the infantry platoon en route back to Camp Wareagle. While attacking 3 kilometers out of Sadr City under intense fire, Sergeant Jordan acted immediately to safeguard the infantry riding in the HMMWV to his front when it was hit multiple times by small arms fire, losing multiple tires and its engine. Sergeant Jordan, of his own initiative and without orders, loaded the remaining infantry on his tank and pushed the damaged HMMWV at speeds as slow as 5 kilometers per hour southeast along Route Silver for over a kilometer while still in heavy contact with enemy forces attacking from buildings on his immediate right flank. Sergeant Jordan remained out of hatch, distributed the fires of the infantry riding on his tank and engaged and destroyed several enemy soldiers, sometimes at ranges as close as 10 meters. Sergeant Jordan engaged the enemy with his commander’s .50 caliber machinegun, his M16 rifle, and his M9 pistol, firing all weapons systems until his ammunition was exhausted. After that, he fired M203 grenade rounds he received from infantry riding on his tank at enemy soldiers at extremely close range until he had safely pushed the damaged HMMWV to Camp Wareagle and safely delivered all of the infantry riding on his tank at their base camp. Sergeant Jordan’s exceptional bravery while under intense fire during a three-hour attack is in the highest traditions of the 2d Cavalry Regiment, the 1st Armored Division and the United States Army.