Medal of Honor Recipient Roy Benavidez | Congressional Medal of Honor Society

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On February 24, 1981, President Ronald Reagan presented Roy P. Benavidez with the Medal of Honor in the Pentagon. Reagan turned to the press and said, “If the story of his heroism were a movie script, you would not believe it.” (From Citation) Sgt. Roy P. Benevidez 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 whi

Roy Benavidez: Unkillable Vietnam War Hero