The Secretary of defence attended the ceremony of awarding the Medal of Honor by president Donald Trump at the White House. Staff Sergeant was posthumously awarded. Michael Ollis, who died in 2013 at the hands of a suicide bomber at the Ghazni base in Afghanistan, saving the life of his Polish colleague Captain Karol Cierpica. At the Polish Embassy, Przydacz presented Ollis's parents with the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, awarded to the fallen by president Karol Nawrocki at the request of the head of the Ministry of Defence.