Congressional Medal of Honor

Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez

>On the morning of 2 May 1968, a 12-man Special Forces Reconnaissance Team was inserted by helicopters in a dense jungle area west of Loc Ninh, Vietnam to gather intelligence information about confirmed large-scale enemy activity.
>This area was controlled and routinely patrolled by the North Vietnamese Army.
> After a short period of time on the ground, the team met heavy enemy resistance, and requested emergency extraction.
> Three helicopters attempted extraction, but were unable to land due to intense enemy small arms and anti-aircraft fire.
>Sergeant BENAVIDEZ was at the Forward Operating Base in Loc Ninh monitoring the operation by radio when these helicopters returned to off-load wounded crew members and to assess aircraft damage.
> Sergeant Benavidez voluntarily boarded a returning aircraft to assist in another extraction attempt.
> Realizing that all the team members were either dead or wounded and unable to move to the pickup zone, he directed the aircraft to a nearby clearing where he jumped from the hovering helicopter, and ran approximately 75 meters under withering small arms fire to the crippled team.
>Prior to even reaching the team's position he was shot in his right leg, face, and head.
> Despite these painful injuries, he took charge, repositioning the team members and directing their fire to facilitate the landing of an extraction aircraft, and the loading of wounded and dead team members.
> He then threw smoke canisters to direct the aircraft to the team's position.
> Despite his critical wounds and under intense enemy fire, he carried and dragged half of the wounded team members to the awaiting aircraft.
> He then provided protective fire by running alongside the aircraft as it moved to pick up the remaining team members.
> As the enemy's fire intensified, he hurried to recover the body and classified documents on the dead team leader.

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>When he reached the leader's body, Sergeant Benavidez was severely wounded by small arms fire in the abdomen and grenade fragments in his back.
> At nearly the same moment, the aircraft pilot was fatally wounded, and his helicopter crashed.
>Although in extremely critical condition due to his multiple gunshot and shrapnel wounds, Sergeant Benavidez secured the classified documents and made his way back to the flaming wreckage, where he aided the wounded out of the overturned aircraft, and gathered the survivors into a defensive perimeter.
> Under increasing enemy automatic weapons and grenade fire, he moved around the perimeter distributing water and ammunition to his weary men, reinstilling in them a will to live and fight.
>Facing a buildup of enemy opposition with a beleaguered team, Sergeant BENAVIDEZ mustered his strength, began calling in danger close air strikes and directed the fire from supporting gunships to suppress the enemy's fire and so permit another extraction attempt.
>He was wounded again in his thigh by small arms fire while administering first aid to a wounded team member just before another extraction helicopter was able to land.
> His indomitable spirit kept him going as he began to ferry his comrades to the craft.
> On his second trip with the wounded, he was clubbed from behind by an enemy soldier. His jaw and skull were shattered.
> In the ensuing hand-to-hand combat, he sustained additional bayonet wounds to his head and arms before disarming and killing his adversary with his own bayonet.

> He then continued under devastating fire to carry the wounded to the helicopter. It was later found out that in the confusion he loaded two enemy bodies into the helicopter because "I couldn't see a damn thing, I was bleeding from my eyes, and I wanted to make damn sure I didn't leave anyone behind"
>Upon reaching the aircraft, he spotted and killed two enemy soldiers who were rushing the craft from an angle that prevented the aircraft door gunner from firing upon them.
>With little strength remaining, he made one last trip to the perimeter to ensure that all classified material had been collected or destroyed, and to bring in the remaining wounded.
>Only then, in extremely serious condition from numerous wounds and loss of blood, did he allow himself to be pulled into the extraction aircraft.
>Sergeant BENAVIDEZS' gallant choice to join voluntarily his comrades who were in critical straits, to expose himself constantly to withering enemy fire, and his refusal to be stopped despite numerous severe wounds, saved the lives of at least eight men.
>He was evacuated to the base camp, examined, and thought to be dead. As he was placed in a body bag among the other dead in body bags, he was suddenly recognized by a friend who called for help. A doctor came and examined him and he too believed Benavidez was dead. The doctor was about to zipper up the bag when Benavidez with his last ounce of strength managed to spit blood in his face, alerting the doctor that he was still alive. At the end of the day, Benavidez had a total of 37 separate gunshot wounds, many bayonet punctures, and his shoulders and ribcage had been nearly been removed from shrapnel, from the six hour fight with the enemy battalion numbering in the thousands

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>Prior to his attachment to the 5th SFG

>He stepped on a land mine during a patrol and was evacuated to the United States, where doctors at Fort Sam Houston concluded he would never walk again and began preparing his medical discharge papers.

>As Benavidez noted in his 1981 MOH acceptance speech, stung by the diagnosis, as well as flag burnings and media criticism of the US military presence in Vietnam he saw on TV, he began an unsanctioned nightly training ritual in an attempt to redevelop his ability to walk.

>Getting out of bed at night (against doctors orders), Benavidez would crawl using his elbows and chin to a wall near his bedside and (with the encouragement of his fellow patients, many of whom were permanently paralyzed and/or missing limbs), he would prop himself against the wall and attempt to lift himself unaided, starting by wiggling his toes, then his feet, and then eventually (after several months of excruciating practice that by his own admission often left him in tears) pushing himself up the wall with his ankles and legs.

>After over a year of hospitalization, Benavidez walked out of the hospital in July 1966, with his wife at his side, determined to return to combat in Vietnam.

>Benavidez returned to Fort Bragg and began training for the elite Army Special Forces.

>Once qualified and accepted, he became a member of the 5th Special Forces Group; and the Studies and Observations Group (SOG).

>Despite constant pain from his wounds, he returned to South Vietnam in January 1968 at his own request.

The name of the board is not /cmoh/.
So why are you posting this here?
Has nothing to do with politics.

Yes, it does. A Mexican American man was literally shot 37 times, dragged an entire wounded special forces team out of a combat zone, and gave speeches about how to be a good Christian American until he died. He loved you. Why don't you love him?

Was he a legal citizen? If he was them I love and respect him.

He was, he was also a fucking badass

Yes, and he referenced being called a "stupid beaner" or "stupid injun" due to his heavy southwestern accent. This was in the 1950s, keep that in mind, but he loved america with all his heart until the day he died. He had a VERY thick accent and was often discarded as a "stupid mexican"

Please listen to this speech

youtu.be/fvlAHUur5eg

woopdie fucking doo you found a single man from a nation of corn oil festering manlet burrito Spanish rape babies. the wall is being built fuck off out of here if you are thstt pissy about it.

What a fucking badass.

Also, when you watch this video please keep in mind he was shot multiple times in the face and head, as well as having a bayonet jammed through his jaw . His speech may sound weird but he is a bad motherfucker, even if he talks weird.

Benavidez is a greater man than the majority of us could ever hope to become.

That doesn't, however, change the realities of race, or mean that civic nationalism is the way forward.

That's a cool story and I respect any true brave of any nation, but this doesn't really mean anything in the grand scheme of the destruction of western civilization.

Yea this guy is perhaps braver than anyone posting on this board, but it doesn't excuse the fact that millions of his compatriots flood into my country, take welfare, displace workers, allow a drug culture to fester, and then bitch about white people.

I applaud the guy and I hate his people.

There is no intellectual inconsistency here to expose.

so think of people as individuals, since individuals can be loved, and groups are easy to hate?

What he's saying is entirely consistent.

Yes, you can and should judge people as individuals, regardless of race. There can be outstanding people within any race.

That does not, however, change the reality of the fact that members of certain races, on average, are far more likely to possess certain negative traits, and that in a broader sense, integration of races has absolutely no benefit and a number of demonstrable downsides.

Therefore, yes, you can judge people on an individual basis. That does not mean you necessarily need to agree with them, as a whole, being in your country. Furthermore, it's perfectly rational to make generalized assumptions about somebody based on their race prior to getting to know more about them on an individual level.

Cool story bro. But we must control our borders. Too many drugs and sex trafficking comes from the south. Like Trump said, the wall is going to have a door for proper immigration.

Did you know that most opioid deaths comes from Mexican fentalyl?

The mental gymnastics are truly mind boggling. I thought libshits were bad but holy shit.This man is a hero and you still manage to hate him

>Veitnam
>50s

Please put some effort into understanding what happened before being retarded

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He was referencing his time in elementary school shitdick.

Because soldiers who served in Vietnam weren't born until 1970. It's not like they were born 2 decades earlier or anything

the real mental gymnastics here is trying to shove your point of you which is: mexicans are all proud super soldier, none of them are bad, look that this one guy 40 years ago, they're all like that!

>and was often discarded as a "stupid mexican"

by whom? Jews?

Dumb beaner. Don't care. Also he married a white woman and had mixed race kids. I don't like anyone who pollutes our gene pool

Wow that changes everything. I am totally fine with my country being over run by spics now! Fighting stupid wars is the most American thing you can do

the superior white race doesn't need racial pollution and corruption from this indio hispanic invader of our rightful nation. this nation is for Hwights and only Hwights.

tldr: Beaner loses war

The dying race cannot be the one to dictate terms, especially when interaccial relationships are on the rise, with black Twitter’s focus on red headed women now.

i agree. Hwhites especially redheads must be protected from poachers. we are endangered.