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Title: This Special Forces Officer Was the Vietnam War’s First Medal of Honor Recipient
Post by: rangerrebew on September 27, 2021, 06:06:27 pm

This Special Forces Officer Was the Vietnam War’s First Medal of Honor Recipient
 
Roger Donlon Medal of Honor
(AUSA)
23 Sep 2021
Military.com | By James Barber

Roger Donlon joined the U.S. Army’s Green Berets in 1963 and was sent to Vietnam long before the majority of folks back home realized that we were getting involved in the conflict in Southeast Asia.

Special Forces were tasked with training South Vietnamese civilians and paramilitaries to fight the insurgent Viet Cong. Capt. Donlon was part of a group that set up camp at Nam Dong near the border with Laos.

On July 6, 1964, the Viet Cong attacked. There were 12 Americans in the camp and a few hundred locals when two battalions of North Vietnamese tried to overrun the base.

https://www.military.com/history/2021/09/23/special-forces-officer-was-vietnam-wars-first-medal-of-honor-recipient.html

Title: Re: This Special Forces Officer Was the Vietnam War’s First Medal of Honor Recipient
Post by: sneakypete on September 27, 2021, 07:33:52 pm

I was in the army them,but doubt I had even heard of VN at that time.