The firefight lasted an excruciating 19 hours. A pre-dawn raid on a North Vietnamese Army camp in the town of Bong Son on June 18, 1965, by the U.S. Army’s 5th Special Forces Group triggered a
Alfred V. Rascon
Medal of Honor recipient Alfred Velazquez Rascon is one of few American soldiers to earn the Combat Medical Badge and the Combat Infantryman Badge in the same war. He earned a second Combat Medical Badge in a subsequent war. Rascon was born in Chihua
