But Benavidez, Sturkey makes clear, was no dupe: he was thankful for the chance to give back to his country, even if, in later years, he came to recognize that the Vietnam War was an avoidable ...

Fighting almost to the death on a Cambodian border mission that did not officially exist on May 2, 1968, Army Staff Sgt. Roy Benavidez became one of the most iconic figures of the Vietnam War.

On May 2, 1968, Benavidez was serving with the 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam when a 12-man reconnaissance team was inserted by helicopter along the Ho Chi Minh trail. Disaster struck almost ...

Texas native Roy Benavidez, a member of the elite Green Berets who earned the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War, had a storied military career that included five Purple Hearts and an astonishing ...

Benavidez joined the Texas Army National Guard in 1952 during the Korean War, ... While in South Vietnam as an advisor to a Vietnamese infantry regiment, ...

Master Sgt. Roy P. Benavidez led a mission to save eight soldiers in Vietnam — and nearly died in the process. Decades later, his daughter recalls a father who believed honor wasn't won, but earned.

In the heart of the Vietnam War, wounded, outnumbered, and facing impossible odds, one man, Roy Benavidez, defied death itself—again and again. His actions would earn him the Medal of Honor and ...

A Hispanic organization and group of Texas Veterans want to rename Fort Hood in honor of Master Sgt. Roy Benavidez, a Medal of Honor recipient from the Vietnam War.

More: Memorial at World War II Veterans of Company E Park honors service and sacrifice On May 2, 1968, Benavidez was serving with the 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam when a 12-man ...