Title: Roy Benavidez,a true hero Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Sep 3, 2010 Author:Big Geek Daddy Post Date:2010-09-03 09:58:05 by sneakypete Keywords:None Views:14631 Comments:35
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Poster Comment:
This action happened in Cambodia,not South Viet Nam. Roy was assigned to MACV-SOG's CCS. All the operations were classified as Top Secret and everybody went in wearing sterile clothing with no US insignia or patches,and with no dog tags or ID cards. Our weapons were even sterile,with the serial numbers having been reported as stolen if US weapons,or never logged into the army system if foreign. Not that this makes any difference in this case because Roy went in armed with only a Bowie Knife. I know there has been a lot of talk about John McCain being a hero. Here is a REAL hero.
I served with one MOH winner during my peace time service in Germany. He was our Bn S-3 and our COL/0-6 Brigade Cdr didn't like him. The MOH winner sported a mustache and that might have been one reason. I don't know. I was just a butter bar.
His name was Sprayberry.
I remember Benavidez being awarded the MOH by Reagan.
Did you ever see that episode of M*A*S*H where Hawkeye goes to pick up BJ? They take Radar into the O Club by pinning their captain's bars on him declaring him a "Corporal Captain"?
Did you ever see that episode of M*A*S*H where Hawkeye goes to pick up BJ? They take Radar into the O Club by pinning their captain's bars on him declaring him a "Corporal Captain"?
I had a senior SGM (he was corporal in the USMC when Pearl Harbor was attacked)catch me in the dayroom one afternoon and tell me to come to the NCO club and have a few drinks with him. When I reminded him that I was a Spec4 and couldn't get into a non-SF NCO Club,he told me to borrow the fatigue shirt from a SSG that was in there shooting pool,and come along.
