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 Chihuahua, Mexico, in 1945. His family emigrated to Oxnard, Calif., when he was very young. As a boy he 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, Rascon deployed with his unit to Okinawa. In May 1965, the 173rd further deployed to Vietnam, the U.S. Army’s first major ground combat unit to serve in that country.
