The Maryland governor had faced a controversy over whether he had received the medal for his time in Afghanistan.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore received a Bronze Star on Friday evening for his military service in Afghanistan, months after controversy over an unearthed application from 2006 where Moore claimed that

A firestorm swirled this summer over his false claim about receiving a Bronze Star and subsequent failure to correct the record in TV appearances, prompting Moore to apologize for what he called “an honest mistake.

Moore, a veteran of the Army Reserves, served a deployment to Afghanistan in 2005 and 2006, and his supervisor nominated him for the Bronze Star.