New Zealand Girl Reacts to THE GREEN BERET WHO WENT ON A ONE MADE RAMPAGE TO SAVE HIS COMRADES

hi everyone and welcome back to another video my name is courtney if you don't know me already and on my channel i react to all things america and other stuff as well so if you want to get a new zealander's perspective definitely hit that subscribe button down below so in today's video we're checking out the green beret who went on a one-man rampage to save his comrades crazy i'm looking forward to this video and looking forward to the story sounds like some extreme bravery and we're gonna check it out today leave any thoughts and comments down below or if you want to teach me something new definitely feel free to down below i learn a lot not only from these videos but from you guys who comment down below um but yeah without any further ado let's get into today's [Music] video the green beret who went on a one-man rampage roy benavidez the vietnam war roy benavidez's life had been rough as a child both his parents had died he was bullied by his classmates because of his mixed yakui indian and mexican heritage and had to leave school in eighth grade to help his family at the age of 19 benavidez joined the army serving in the korean war in the texas army national guard he married hilaria lala coy benavidez in 1959 and completed airborne training becoming assigned to the 82nd airborne division 1966 sergeant roy benavidez was in hospital after stepping on a land mine doctors said he would never walk again he had been sent to vietnam in 1965 as an advisor for the arvn troops there benavidez was carrying out a classified operation alone to gather evidence that the north vietnamese troops were posing as vietcong while he was on patrol along a narrow trail disguised as a vietcong gorilla he stepped on a landmine time later a squad of marines came across benavidez they initially thought it was a booby trap but were surprised when they flipped him over and discovered the man in vietcong pajamas was hispanic and wearing us army dog tags he was soon evacuated to the hospital in a hospital in the u.s two months later benavidez had recovered and awoke his memories came back to him the doctor told him he would never walk again his spine had been damaged and his brain had rattled in his skull nevertheless benavidez sitting in his wheelchair begged to the doctors not to discharge him from the army the army was his life determined benevides got up from his bed night after night dragging himself to the wall and putting weight on his legs for weeks he pushed through the pain going further a distance than before which surprised the doctors six months later with his wife lala support roy benavidez walked out of the hospital he was promised only a desk job at fort bragg north carolina who determined and exercising every day he trained vigorously and qualified for the special forces also known as the green berets he would be assigned to detachment b-56 fifth special forces group airborne first special forces six hours in hell now it was 1968 staff sergeant roy benavidez now with a code name tango mike mike was back in vietnam it was off duty attending church but his mind was fixed on the panicking radio chatter from the front lines in lochnin vietnam near the cambodian border a 12-man special forces reconnaissance team which included his close friends sergeant first class leroy wright staff sergeant lloyd frenchy mousseau specialist for ryan o'connor and nine montanard tribesmen who were part of the civilian irregular defense group program or cidg were surrounded by a battalion numbering 1 000 battle-hardened north vietnamese soldiers everyone in the unit had been wounded or killed in earlier fighting and three of the helicopters sent to rescue them have been unable to extract them due to heavy enemy fire when the helicopters returned they were riddled with bullets one of them the door gunner michael craig aged 19 had been hit several times and died in benavidez's arms there was no way benavidez was going to leave his friends out of the jungle benavidez jumped onto a returning helicopter that was going back in volunteering so quickly that he didn't have time to get his m16 so was only armed with a bowie knife and medical supplies benavidez described it as going into autopilot as he was approaching the extraction zone benavidez realized his fellow team members were too severely wounded to run the distance to the helicopter there was so much enemy gunfire that the pilot larry mckibben had to zigzag in an attempt to dodge it but was nevertheless able to provide cover and fire benavidez jumped out with a medical bag ran through the jungle to the wounded men under heavy enemy fire taking a shot to the leg which he initially thought was a thorn bush he found musso first against a tree whose eyeball had been shot out and was hanging down his cheek but was determined to keep shooting back the cidg were in a pool of blood patched up as best they could benavidez dragged everyone into a defensible position to direct their fire at the enemy and provided morphine to the wounded he then saw o'connor and an interpreter cidg who he motioned to to move over to him but the gunfire started again and they took cover another round then hit benavidez and his thigh on adrenaline he popped the green smoke from a kibben in the rescue helicopter to pick them up while everyone who could move got into the chomper he suppressed the tree line with an ak-47 he had picked up to cover o'connor and the interpreter who crawled towards the helicopter now benavidez was looking for the team leader sergeant first class leroy wright who had been killed and who also had intel on him that could not get into enemy hands benavidez found his body and proceeded to drag him to the chopper when he was shot again this time in the stomach and hit the back by shrapnel from a nearby grenade knocking him out when he awoke benavidez was forced to leave his dead friend's body disaster had also struck the chopper had crashed to the ground from enemy fire the pilot the kibben is dead five of the men on board including musso survived the crash as did o'connor and the interpreter who didn't get into the helicopter benavidez pulled them out of the wreckage dispensed morphine set up a perimeter around the crash site and called in heavy air support from the f-100s above which dropped napalm on the enemy position when the jets ran out of fuel and had to leave the enemy machine gun fire started again benavidez gave o'connor a third shot of morphine and took another bullet to the leg their position was surrounded by north vietnamese soldiers it looked hopeless but a helicopter finally came to their rescue pedavides and the rescue team carried and dragged the wounded men onto the chopper but the landing zone was still being fired upon by nba troops to the extent that two men were shot in the back as they crawled to it shrapnel wounds to his face from earlier caused benavidez's vision to be blurred from the blood in his eyes when he went to get mousseau an nba soldier butted his rifle into benavidez's head and jaw and slashed his arm with his bayonet he shouted to o'connor to shoot but he was too drugged for morphine to react benavidez pulled out his bowie knife and stabbed the nva soldier until he was dead then dragged musso to the helicopter and killed two more nba with an ak-47 who were out of the helicopter's side gunners arc of fire and then he made one more trip to get the interpreter and destroy any classified material with blood still obscuring his vision only then did he allow the others to pull him onto the helicopter the last man to leave the battlefield at this point the round that had hit his stomach had exposed his intestines which he was trying to hold in with his hands a helicopter badly shot up and with no instruments left managed to take off my gosh when they landed the wounded were unloaded and examined one by one it had turned out that benavidez had even loaded three dead enemy soldiers into the helicopter in case they had classified materials they were left to the side as was benavidez he couldn't move or speak because of the broken jaw from the rifle butt the blood over his eyes had glued them shut and with 37 bayonet bullet and shrapnel wounds all over his body he looked dead medics started placing him in a body bag and started zipping him up when a friend noticed him and said that's roy that's roy benavidez the doctor said there was nothing that could be done but benavidez mustered his last bit of energy and spat in the doctor's face causing the doctor to say i think he'll make it he was flown to japan for intensive surgery then brook army medical center fort sam houston where he stayed for almost a year roy benavidez had survived six hours in hell and saved eight lives benavidez's commander had put him in for the distinguished service cross because the process for awarding a medal of honor would take much longer and he was unsure if benavidez would live or die before he could have received it finally on february 24 1981 president ronald reagan would present roy benavidez the medal of honor reagan said if the story of his heroism were a movie script you would not believe it benavidez said of his actions the real heroes are the ones who gave their lives for their country i don't like to be called a hero i just did what i was trained to do master sergeant roy benavidez died on november 29 1998 at the age of [Music] 63. subscribe for more vietnam war history videos i never would have expected that what an amazing amazing man i am in awe of his story and his fight within him like throughout his whole life from when he stood on the mine and then he was like so determined to not only walk but stay in the army and then oh my gosh he literally took down all those people and saved all of his friends and he got shot multiple times that's crazy this doesn't seem real like wow and he survived he survived wow the fight in this man the fight amazing wow i'm i'm in shock honestly and in or and you know that these kind of people exist there's like a fire in their soul and putting him into a body bag and hearing the description of his injuries how did he not die that's incredible he is an amazing amazing man i just can't even get over that wow i just don't know how you could physically get through that and you're not getting shot all those multiple times under fire like it's a soldier right there it's a green beret right there seriously also i'm looking at the comments and it's like seriously where is this man's movie i agree where is this man's movie is there a movie because this is something i think that should be shown to people instead of like fake war movies right actually show the heroes that did this stuff like literally their way through the situation that seriously not many people would do or could do like that's a story that needs to be told i think that's insane isn't it um so thank you so much for watching today's video with me guys that that really really touched me seriously that was just insane right i'm sure you guys agree i'm not sure if you guys know about him or not but i certainly didn't and it's honestly an honor to learn about these situations but yeah if you guys have anything to add below definitely feel free to i not only learn so much from these videos watching them with you but also from you guys commenting down below as well so definitely feel free to leave a comment down below um thank you guys so much for watching i hope you enjoyed it as much as i did that was absolutely insane and incredible i never would have thought a story like this would be what would exist but yeah thanks guys so much for watching and tuning into today's video and i will see you in my next one bye guys you

Channel: Courtney Coulston

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Length: 13min 49sec (829 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 23 2021