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Trump awards Medal of Honor to Special Forces medic who braved Vietnam gunfire
Fox News ^ | Oct 23, 2017 | Lucia I. Suarez Sang

Posted on 10/23/2017 1:18:18 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse

Officially, retired Army Capt. Gary “Mike” Rose was never in Laos at the height of the Vietnam War.

Rose, now 69, served as a medic in the Military Assistance Command Studies and Observations Group, an elite division of the Special Forces. It was so secret that, for more than four decades, he never spoke about it to anyone – not even the people he served with.

Those that served with him, however, never forgot the bravery he showed during a four-day mission, called “Operation Tailwind,” in the landlocked country in September 1970.

Rose, then a sergeant, ran through a hail of gunfire to treat more than 50 soldiers who were fighting the North Vietnamese Army – using one hand to hoist wounded men onto his back while he fired on the enemy with his other hand.

In spite of his own injuries, he didn’t sleep for days to make sure all 16 American soldiers deployed with him made it home.

They did.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: medalofhonor; moh; presidenttrump; sgtgarymrose; trump; vietnam; vietnamvets; vietnamwar
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Uncommon Valor
1 posted on 10/23/2017 1:18:18 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: LeoWindhorse

just watched it...terrific ceremony


2 posted on 10/23/2017 1:19:09 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: God luvs America

So great he was finally recognized .

Welcome home sir


3 posted on 10/23/2017 1:20:12 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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To: God luvs America
 
 
Same here - was top-notch. Guarantee Rose & his family were extended every courtesy and then some.
 
 

4 posted on 10/23/2017 1:21:40 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: LeoWindhorse

https://www.army.mil/medalofhonor/rose/

https://www.c-span.org/video/?436139-1/president-awards-medal-honor-vietnam-war-army-medic


5 posted on 10/23/2017 1:23:14 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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To: LeoWindhorse; God luvs America

“Uncommon Valor’ is correct and the ceremony was terrific.


6 posted on 10/23/2017 1:25:31 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: LeoWindhorse

President Trump ; Please focus some of your attention on what happened in the Extortion17 mission in AFG in 2011 .

Please do this for Karen and Billy Vaughn and all the other families . They need to know the truth .


7 posted on 10/23/2017 1:25:37 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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To: LeoWindhorse

” using one hand to hoist wounded men onto his back while he fired on the enemy with his other hand.”

He’s a man alright.


8 posted on 10/23/2017 1:27:40 PM PDT by beergarden
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To: LeoWindhorse

I casually know a guy who was in Laos as a civilian DOD employee. (Some sort of communication engineer) I wonder if he was in this same unit?

I haven’t seen him for years and wouldn’t presume to ask him. I’ve got other friends who have been involved in some similar stuff. It ain’t my business to know more.


9 posted on 10/23/2017 1:28:16 PM PDT by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: jazusamo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY_iseZ2kJg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_C2cbqPkx0


10 posted on 10/23/2017 1:28:50 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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To: LeoWindhorse

bump


11 posted on 10/23/2017 1:35:07 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Yep, saw it way back then.


12 posted on 10/23/2017 1:36:58 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Generals, Admirals, even Presidents, all must salute MOH hero’s...


13 posted on 10/23/2017 1:37:06 PM PDT by MichaelRDanger
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To: LeoWindhorse

“Studies and observations group”

Worst kept secret of the war. Everybody knew that it stood for “special operations group”

CC


14 posted on 10/23/2017 1:38:43 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (It don't matter if your heart is in the right place, if at the same time your head is up your a$$)
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To: LeoWindhorse

A Hero, unlike that other guy who was captured...


15 posted on 10/23/2017 1:41:31 PM PDT by smileyface (Things looking up in RED PA! I love President Trump!)
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To: cyclotic

Might have been here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima_Site_85

Also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lima_Site_85

Not a MACV-SOG operation.


16 posted on 10/23/2017 1:49:21 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Don’t we have to wait for Dime-Store Cowboy Hat Frederica Wilson’s version of this first?

Maybe Dollar Store with inflation.


17 posted on 10/23/2017 2:18:49 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: LeoWindhorse

They upgraded his DSC to a MOH.


18 posted on 10/23/2017 2:21:26 PM PDT by kabar
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To: MichaelRDanger
Generals, Admirals, even Presidents, all must salute MOH hero’s...

There is a special place in every 11 Bravo grunts heart for their combat medics, they are a class of guys that cannot be compared to others in the field.

19 posted on 10/23/2017 2:32:02 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: MichaelRDanger
I did a short tour in the States in 1967 before I volunteered to go back to Nam. We had a PP, Perpetual Private, who worked in the commissary.

I was surprised when the Post Commander saluted him when ever he passed him. It turned out that he won the MOH in Korea doing amazing feats of bravery during the Pusan(?) parameter fights.

20 posted on 10/23/2017 2:47:13 PM PDT by Little Bill (VN 65 - 68)
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