Sergeant Roy Benavidez . Bravest, gutsiest, physically most awesome story I've ever read..

[dquan97]

I hope this guy recieved the Congressional Medal of Honor.

He deserves at least 2

 

[MAME]

poor Vietnamese soldiers

 

[dquan97]

poor Vietnamese soldiers

How so?

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: ThePresence
I hope this guy recieved the Congressional Medal of Honor.

At first he got the DSC, then it was upgraded to the CMH and it was prestented to him by Regan.

 

[Jumpem]

Originally posted by: MAME
poor Vietnamese soldiers

This had better be sarcasm.

 

[gopunk]

yea i read about that in a book about SOG... apparently he was just a clerk or something, the soldiers he was saving were green berets iirc

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Mookow
This did bring up an ethical question in my mind. If I were in a squad, and after wiping out most of my squad, the men in an enemy emplacement attempted to surrender... would I or wouldnt I shoot them after they put their hands up? As in, if you were part of the D-Day invasion, and almost all of your boat got wiped out by a machine gun right when the ramp went down, and you made it up to the cliffs, after watching machinegunners slaughter your comrades, would you accept their surrender, or empty your clip into them?

I couldn't do it. They're just soldiers fighting for their country. To kill in the heat of battle is one thing, but they surrendered.

If it were the Japanese in WWII I was fighting, I might be singing a different tune though.

Oh and...

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
great story, but your the asshole for bringing politics into it in the first place.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: virtualgames0
LOL. liberal asshole is exactly what my econ teacher is. He was just talking about how memorial day is bs, and the soldiers aren't really heros, and the true heros are the ones that protested the war, because war is bs. He was saying it's more patriotic to protest the war than to fight it... The whole class was agreeing with him... what losers...

They're all just plain assholes then. No liberal prefix necessary. I think that war was horse sh|t, but I wouldn't dream of debasing the sacrifices of those who fought in it. They were only doing their duty to their country and what they thought was right.

 

[Fritzo]

Once I killed three spiders at once.

Really!

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269

The ten Germans in their emplacement lost their nerve and surrendered.

Oh my God. That's awesome. I wonder if they thought he was a God or something.

Sh!t, it'd rattle me if I knocked someone over several times with a 7.92mm machinegun kept getting up. I'd probably end up firing the rest of my belt at them, though.

 

[AeroEngy]

I was going to post this story in honor of Memorial Day but found it when I searched. So I thought I would just necro it instead. That guy was a huge badass. He took 7 gun shot wounds, 28 shrapnel wounds, bayonet wounds, killed a bunch of dudes (one with a knife), and saved several lives.

Old article form the New York Times

 

[Chaotic42]

I know this is an old thread, but I'd never heard this story before. That guy's heroics are almost unimaginable. If some character in a movie had done the same thing, everyone would be saying the movie was unrealistic.

Whatever the politics of war, those who serve *are* honorable, and those who fall are worthy of remembrance.

 

[marvdmartian]

As the doctor began to pull up the black shroud's zipper, Roy Benavidez spit in his face.

Damn, that's one tough hombre!! :thumbsup:

 

[pwnagesarus]

A thread worthy of a necro.

 

[satyajitmenon]

Necro approved. :thumbsup:

 

[jman19]

Definitely a worthy necro, and worthy of a bump too :thumbsup:

 

[Barfo]

tl;dr

 

[zinfamous]

worthy necro.


This guy sounds like TridenT.

 

[Binarycow]

poor Vietnamese soldiers

They probably thought Mars had descended from heaven and was going after them.

 

[aceO07]

yea i read about that in a book about SOG... apparently he was just a clerk or something, the soldiers he was saving were green berets iirc

According to the NYTimes article, he was also a Green Beret.

"He joined the Army at 19, went to airborne school, then was injured by a land mine in South Vietnam in 1964. Doctors feared he would never walk again, but he recovered and became a Green Beret. He was on his second Vietnam tour when he carried out his rescue mission."

 

[SilverThief]

Outstanding story.

 

[Fayd]

one of the people my father worked with (and i met) had been a medevac chopper pilot in vietnam. shot down 5 times, from what i understand every time killing everyone onboard but him.

the last time was especially bad, and he himself got shot up really bad.

still alive.