0:02 John Rambo the action hero that was an
0:04 Unstoppable unkillable Green Beret from
0:06 the Vietnam war that went into battle
0:08 with nothing more than a big knife this
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0:11 about the man that inspired that
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0:15 is about the real Rambo the actual man
0:17 that was inspired to join the military
0:18 because of aie Murphy that would go on
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0:22 combat against a thousand men with
0:25 nothing more than a big
0:27 knife today we're talking about call
0:30 sign Tango Mike Mike AKA that mean
0:33 Mexican master sergeant Roy benovitz
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2:05 video born on August 5th 1935 Roy's
2:07 first memory in life was attending his
2:08 own father's funeral after he had passed
2:11 away from tuberculosis when Roy was 3
2:12 years old one year later Roy's mother
2:14 would remarry and 9 months after that
2:16 she would give birth to Roy's new half
2:17 sister and from that moment on Roy was
2:19 essentially on his own his parents gave
2:21 all of their attention to their new
2:23 daughter and Roy and his younger brother
2:26 Ro Helio were kind of neglected 2 years
2:27 later Roy's mother would develop a cough
2:29 that would get progressively worse and
2:30 worse similar to how Roy's father had
2:33 Roy's mother now had tuberculosis too
2:34 and while she was on her deathbed her
2:36 husband Roy's stepfather would inform
2:37 her that he would absolutely not be
2:39 raising another man's kids and
2:41 six-year-old Roy over hears this he's
2:42 terrified he has no idea what's going to
2:44 happen to him and his younger brother Ro
2:45 Helio he's already lost his dad he's
2:47 about to lose his mom and his stepdad
2:48 doesn't want him and that's the only
2:50 family he's ever known in his entire
2:51 life on the day of his mother's funeral
2:54 his stepfather tells him and ralio to
2:55 pack their things they're going to go
2:57 live somewhere else they load up in the
2:59 car go off to where the funeral's held
3:00 and at the funeral a man comes up and
3:03 introduces himself as Nicholas benovitz
3:05 he is their father's brother Roy and Ro
3:07 helo's uncle and they're going to come
3:08 live with him after the funeral they
3:10 load up on Uncle Nicholas's car and they
3:12 head off to elcampo Texas Roy and Ro
3:14 Helio's new home upon their arrival they
3:15 get to meet what is going to be their
3:16 new immediate family they have their
3:18 Uncle Nicholas their Aunt Alexandria
3:21 their grandfather Salvador and their
3:23 eight cousins Roy is then informed that
3:25 it is now going to be seven boys sharing
3:27 four beds and that everyone in this
3:29 family has to work to make this entire
3:30 thing work because they don't have a lot
3:32 of money all the kids in the family are
3:34 expected to go to school get good grades
3:36 and then after school they all have a
3:37 job that they are expected to go out and
3:39 do to help contribute to the family and
3:41 at the age of seven Roy's first job was
3:43 to go shine shoes to earn a little bit
3:44 of extra money then in the Summers or
3:46 any other time the opportunity presented
3:48 itself they would all go out as a family
3:50 and work in the fields picking crops and
3:51 this goes on for Roy's entire childhood
3:53 and his new family is incredible his
3:55 aunt his uncle his grandfather Salvador
3:57 they're the best people on the planet
3:59 but they're also being spread across
4:01 their work and the nine other kids in
4:03 the house so no kid gets a whole lot of
4:05 attention so between that losing both of
4:07 his parents and being abandoned by his
4:09 stepfather he's kind of an Angry Kid
4:10 understandably so so at a young age he
4:12 developed a pretty bad attitude and he
4:13 was not afraid to fight about it one of
4:15 his favorite things to do when he was
4:17 seven8 9 10 11 12 years old was to go to
4:19 the movie theater and watch the news
4:20 reels of all the different things that
4:22 were happening in World War II and he
4:24 was inspired by the paratroopers that's
4:26 what he wanted to do he wanted to be in
4:27 the United States Army but the problem
4:29 with this pastime of going to the movie
4:30 theater to to watch all the news reels
4:32 was that you had to pay to get inside
4:33 and Roy didn't have any money all the
4:35 shoe shining money went back to the
4:37 family so Roy and a bunch of other kids
4:38 would wait outside the movie theater for
4:40 one of the previous showings to leave
4:42 and hopefully rich people would throw
4:44 their pocket change out and let all the
4:46 poor kids scramble and fight over it it
4:47 didn't take young Roy long to figure out
4:48 that if he just beat up all the other
4:50 kids he would get all the money and then
4:51 he wouldn't have to run and dive for pocket
4:52 pocket
4:55 change the enemy cannot push a button if
4:57 you disable his hand and that's just the
4:59 beginning of the fighting it gets so
5:00 much worse because as World War II
5:02 progresses and all the young men go off
5:04 to fight this war there's a huge lack of
5:06 Manpower all across the United States
5:07 and to help alleviate that one of the
5:09 things the United States government does
5:10 is basically opens up the southern
5:12 border so that people can freely come
5:14 into the United States and begin working
5:15 because of that there ends up being this
5:17 huge misconception especially in any
5:19 state bordering Mexico that any person
5:22 of Hispanic descent wasn't even American
5:23 they were just some Mexican that was
5:26 showing up to work in the fields elento
5:30 uh D are you from Scranton e for that La
5:32 Philadelphia this leads to Young Roy
5:34 getting picked on at school all the kids
5:35 are calling him a dumb Mexican they're
5:37 telling him he's not American they're
5:38 calling him a pepper belly and he's like
5:40 eight nine years old he has no idea
5:42 what's going on so he goes to his
5:43 grandfather Salvador and Grandpa
5:46 explains to him Roy the Benitas family
5:47 fought against Mexico to gain their
5:49 independence just like any white
5:51 person's ancestors fought against Great
5:52 Britain to get their independence your
5:54 mother was Yaky Native American you are
5:57 just as much if not more American than
5:59 anybody else the Benitas family name is
6:01 Mexican but we are Americans you have
6:04 multiple cousins fighting for America in
6:06 the war right now don't ever let anybody
6:08 tell you that you're not American which
6:11 is a great sentiment I love it however
6:14 what Young angry Roy honen on was they
6:16 fought for it from this point forward
6:17 anybody that wants to make fun of Roy
6:19 has a fight on their hands and they
6:21 almost never won because Roy at the age
6:23 of nine 10 years old has been working in
6:25 fields and shineing shoes after school
6:27 every day for years he is way above the
6:30 average level of toughness for a young
6:31 man and Roy wasn't even that big of a
6:33 kid if anything he was smaller than
6:34 average but none of the bullies were
6:35 bigger than him either once they were
6:37 looking up at him from the flat of their
6:38 back which is always where they happen
6:40 to find themselves eventually now it's
6:41 also important to mention that Roy while
6:42 he does have a temper and he's not
6:44 afraid to fight about it he does have
6:46 standards he was being raised right by
6:47 his aunt and his uncle and his
6:50 grandfather Roy would not hit a girl if
6:53 a girl made fun of him he's a good kid
6:54 but what he would do is when they went
6:56 out to recess he would kick dirt at her
6:58 until her brother or her boyfriend came
6:59 to stop him and then he'd beat the [ __ ]
7:02 out of that guy hello how are
7:04 you and this goes on for Roy's entire
7:06 childhood he's always getting in fights
7:07 he struggles in the classroom
7:09 academically but outside of school he
7:11 does work super hard to help provide for
7:12 his family he still loves going to the
7:13 movie theater watching all the news
7:15 reels about World War II he still wants
7:17 to grow up to be a paratrooper and he
7:19 also loves hanging out with his uncle
7:21 and his grandfather Salvador and his
7:22 grandpa had all these amazing stories
7:23 that he would share with him and all
7:25 these stories had some underlying
7:27 meaning or some lesson that Roy needed
7:29 to be taught and his favorite story was
7:31 when his grandpa was younger and he was
7:33 a cowboy and he was on this Trail and
7:35 another Cowboy had fallen off his horse
7:37 down onto a cliff face and he was stuck
7:39 and Grandpa Salvador stopped took his
7:41 belt off and lowered it down to help
7:43 pull this Cowboy Up and saved his life
7:44 and the moral of that story was when
7:47 somebody needs help you help him and all
7:49 this keeps going on until he's about 14
7:50 years old and he drops out of school
7:52 he's not going to go to high school he's
7:54 just going to go get a full-time job and
7:55 help support his family so that's what
7:57 he does he goes out and he starts
7:58 working at this local tire shop Uncle
8:00 Nicholas realizing that Roy is going to
8:02 be a man soon and that getting in fights
8:03 like he does is going to have real world
8:05 repercussions figures that he needs to
8:07 help Roy get over that somehow so he
8:09 encourages Roy to start amateur boxing
8:11 and Roy is incredible at it he makes it
8:13 all the way to the state tournament his
8:14 first year of doing it while there he
8:16 ends up losing his very first match and
8:18 in the locker room after his fight the
8:20 young man that had just beat him comes
8:21 up and wants to shake his hand now that
8:23 they have their gloves off and Roy's
8:25 anger and temper gets the better of him
8:27 and he ends up fighting this kid in the
8:29 locker room wrestling him into a stall
8:31 and shoving his head into a toilet after
8:33 Roy does that all the other coaches all
8:35 the other Fighters Roy's coach all look
8:37 at him like what the [ __ ] dude and
8:38 they're all disappointed and it was the
8:40 first time in Roy's life that he felt
8:42 ashamed and disappointed in himself and
8:44 this is where Roy really starts to get a
8:46 lid and a grasp on how to control his
8:48 anger after that Roy gives up amateur
8:49 boxing and just continues working
8:51 full-time at the tire shop and that's
8:53 when his boss Mr hadock the tire shop
8:55 owner also kind of becomes his father
8:56 figure too cuz he works with him and
8:58 he's around him so much he just becomes
9:00 that older male role model that Roy has
9:02 always kind of been looking for and he
9:04 continues to help Roy mature and get a
9:05 better grip on his anger and more
9:07 control of himself and this goes on for
9:08 a couple of years and then one day when
9:11 Roy is 17 years old a recruiter from the
9:13 Texas National Guard comes in and wants
9:15 to hang up a flyer at the tire shop for
9:16 anybody's interested in joining the
9:18 Texas National Guard and on that flyer
9:20 was none other than Roy's role model aie
9:22 Murphy the most decorated soldier of
9:24 World War II you see this is right in
9:25 the middle of the Korean War so aie
9:27 Murphy the World War II war hero had
9:29 joined the Texas National Guard to help
9:31 with recruiting and he was also going to
9:32 train the next generation of soldiers
9:34 and at this point aie Murphy's the [ __ ]
9:36 he's got an award-winning book he's an
9:38 actor and when he's acting he's playing
9:41 the role of himself in movies and he's
9:43 being told by directors hey I know you
9:45 were there and you're literally just
9:47 portraying the [ __ ] you did but you need
9:49 to Tamp it down a little bit because
9:51 it's so unrealistic nobody's going to
9:53 believe this story this is a Texan that
9:54 was rejected by the Marine Corps for
9:56 being too small and then went on to be
9:58 the most decorated soldier of World War
10:00 II earning the the Medal of Honor for
10:02 going toe-to-toe with an entire German
10:05 SS Battalion by himself from the back of
10:07 a flaming M10 tank destroyer with a 50
10:09 caliber machine gun so Roy Benitos
10:11 figures if the Texas National Guard is
10:13 good enough for Audie Murphy then that's
10:14 exactly where he wants to be so he goes
10:16 He joins the Texas National Guard he
10:18 ships off goes to basic training ends up
10:21 coming back he's doing his weekends he's
10:22 doing his training in the summer that
10:24 goes on for a couple of years while he's
10:26 still working at the tire shop with Mr
10:28 hack then one day he decides that he
10:29 likes doing army stuff a lot more than
10:31 he likes changing tires so he wants to
10:33 go full-time Army he goes over to the
10:35 active duty Recruiters Office it's a
10:36 shared office they've got the Navy the
10:39 Marines the Army and the Air Force all
10:41 right there in one building Roy Walks
10:43 right past the Navy walks right past the
10:45 Marines walks right past the Air Force
10:47 goes straight to the active duty Army
10:49 recruiter says here's my guard papers
10:50 I'm a Corporal I want to be a
10:52 paratrooper I don't just want a normal
10:53 contract I want a contract that
10:55 guarantees me Airborne school at this
10:57 point the Army recruiter looks at Roy
10:59 who's like 130 lb soak and wet and he's
11:01 like man you're not big enough to be a
11:02 paratrooper at which point I'm
11:04 paraphrasing here but Roy says something
11:06 along the lines of well I could cut you
11:07 down to my size and we'll see if you're
11:09 good enough to be a paratrooper maybe
11:10 that'll help you make your decision at
11:13 which point the marine recruiter over
11:15 hear is that and he comes walking over
11:16 and like son you should be a marine
11:18 you've got the right attitude I don't
11:20 care how big you are you should come be
11:21 a devil dog with me at which point Roy
11:23 is like no I don't want to be a marine I
11:25 want to be in the Army just like aie
11:27 Murphy was which brings everything full
11:29 circle because aie Murphy was rejected
11:30 from the Marines for being too small and
11:33 now Roy benovitz is rejecting the
11:35 Marines because he wants to be like aie
11:36 Murphy then the other Army recruiter
11:38 who's a captain an officer somebody that
11:40 outranks a sergeant that thinks Roy's
11:42 too small comes in he's like no no no
11:44 we'll take him come come with me so they
11:45 go they start doing the paperwork and
11:47 Roy's like okay I'm a Corporal in the
11:48 National Guard I've already been through
11:50 basic training I've already done through
11:51 job training you should just be able to
11:53 send me straight to Airborne school and
11:54 then give me a duty station and the
11:56 recruiter is like yeah uh-huh sure
11:58 whatever Roy signs on the dotted line he
12:00 packs his [ __ ] he gets on on the bus and
12:01 he's off to the Army and Roy then
12:03 immediately finds out the hard way that
12:04 that recruiter was either not listening
12:06 to him at all or he was lying to him
12:08 because they sent Roy straight to basic
12:10 training again and to add insult to
12:12 injury he is also not awarded an
12:14 Airborne slot after that so he's not
12:15 going to be a paratrooper like he always
12:17 wanted to after he gets done with
12:19 training he immediately gets sent over
12:21 to Korea where he is going to be there
12:22 right after the Korean war ended and
12:24 he's going to be Manning the DMZ the
12:26 demilitarized zone between what is now
12:28 North and South Korea he's in Korea for
12:29 a year then he comes back home for a
12:31 little bit Stateside then they ship him
12:33 out to Germany and Wally zeri learns how
12:35 to speak German and in Roy's own words
12:37 he becomes the first Hispanic American
12:39 that could speak German with a Southern
12:42 accent see gretto he gets done in
12:43 Germany he comes back home he goes to
12:46 military police School becomes an MP and
12:47 he gets assigned to basically being a
12:49 glorified chauffeur for high-ranking
12:52 Military Officers generals Colonels Etc
12:53 and then randomly one day a couple
12:55 months out from his contract being up
12:56 with the Army he's trying to decide
12:58 whether or not he wants to reinlist and
13:00 this General General West Morland asked
13:01 him you ever thought about being a
13:04 paratrooper and Roy's like yeah actually
13:06 that's only reason I'm here I wanted to
13:08 do that I kind of got screwed out of it
13:09 I'm thinking about reenlisting and if I
13:11 reinlist I really want to be able to
13:13 become a paratrooper to which the
13:14 general kind of like doesn't even really
13:16 continue the conversation he's just like
13:18 huh well that's neat anyways we're at
13:20 the airport now I got to go by and then
13:21 Roy never sees this guy ever again a
13:23 couple months later Roy's contract is
13:24 about to be up he has to decide if he's
13:26 going to reinlist or if he's going to
13:28 get out and his potential reenlistment
13:30 contract there's an Airborne packet
13:32 courtesy of General West Morland if he
13:34 decides to reinlist he will get to go to
13:35 Airborne school and he will get to
13:40 paratrooper so that's what he does he
13:41 goes to Airborne school gets his Jump
13:44 Wings becomes a full-fledged paratrooper
13:45 and then he gets stationed with the
13:47 legendary 82 Airborne Division out of
13:50 Fort Brag I mean Fort Liberty sorry okay
13:51 sidebar look I don't care if we're going
13:53 to be renaming stuff every once in a
13:55 while that's completely fine however
13:57 name it after a war hero or something
13:59 don't just pick a generic term like okay
14:01 I don't need Fort Liberty I don't need
14:03 Fort life I don't need Fort Pursuit of
14:05 Happiness okay quit doing generic [ __ ]
14:07 and name it after an actual badass war
14:09 hero anyways Roy's at Fort Brag Fort
14:10 Liberty North Carolina he is with the
14:12 82nd Airborne during this time he's
14:14 training he's working he's doing his
14:16 thing he also ends up meeting his wife
14:17 and he goes about this the old school
14:19 way he has to have chaperon meetings
14:20 with her until he earns enough street
14:22 cred to finally be able to sit on the
14:24 front porch of her parents house with
14:26 her her name is La La they get married
14:28 she ends up getting pregnant things are
14:30 going EX how they're supposed to go and
14:33 then in 1965 Roy gets deployed to
14:35 Vietnam at the age of 30 Roy gets sent
14:36 over there as an adviser he's going to
14:38 be training the South Vietnamese and how
14:39 to fight back against the North
14:41 Vietnamese and hopefully prevent the
14:43 spread of Communism that's the plan so
14:44 he starts training these guys he's
14:45 working with them and he gets to the
14:47 point that he has to end up going out on
14:48 some of these missions with him because
14:49 they need a leader they need somebody
14:51 with more experience to go out and show
14:53 them how it's done and he does that
14:54 multiple times and then one day he's
14:58 walking through the jungle and all of a
15:00 sudden Roy has no idea what's going on
15:02 one second he's in South Vietnam on a
15:03 mission the next second he's in a
15:05 hospital in the Philippines and
15:06 everything goes by in a blur and before
15:09 he knows it he's in San Antonio at the
15:11 Fort Sam Houston Medical Center at this
15:13 point Roy still has no idea what's going
15:15 on doctors and nurses are coming and
15:16 going there's some pregnant woman named
15:18 la la that's trying to hang out with him
15:20 all day long and he's just not
15:21 comprehending anything that's happening
15:23 to him Roy's wife laa would be informed
15:26 that Roy had stepped on a landmine in
15:27 South Vietnam during one of their
15:29 patrols and they don't how we survived
15:31 but the going theory was that it was
15:33 some type of defect with the landmine
15:35 that when it exploded the entire
15:37 landmine didn't fragment but the top of
15:40 it stayed intact as one solid metal
15:42 plate and when he stepped on it it
15:44 detonated it and the landmine plate shot
15:47 up and smacked him on the ass so hard
15:49 that it broke his back and jolted his
15:51 brain so severely that they don't think
15:53 he'll ever regain his memory in addition
15:54 to that due to his broken back he would
15:56 almost certainly never be able to walk
15:58 again even if he did come to mentally
16:00 and this goes on for weeks of la la
16:02 showing him pictures telling him stories
16:05 trying to remind him of who he was and
16:07 then one day he just wakes up he snaps
16:09 out of it he's sitting in a rehab room
16:12 at the hospital by himself at a table
16:13 and in front of him there's like the
16:15 child's toy you know the big rectangle
16:17 with like the cylinders and the squares
16:18 and the triangles and you shove each one
16:20 through the corresponding shape he's
16:22 sitting there with that in front of him
16:23 and the PT person is like can you put
16:26 the shapes through there Roy and he's
16:28 like yeah obviously I could put the
16:29 shapes through there there and they're
16:30 like well why don't you go ahead and do
16:31 it he's like am I planing to get into
16:33 the Marine Corps like what what is
16:34 happening right now why do you think I
16:35 can't do that and they're like well just
16:37 go ahead and do it so he does it he's
16:39 like okay obviously what what is
16:41 happening right now they then explain to
16:42 him that he has been unable to do that
16:44 for weeks every single time they've got
16:46 him to try and Roy is just like
16:47 literally snapped out of it like that
16:49 he's 100% mentally all there he just
16:51 doesn't remember the accident itself he
16:54 remembers everything else so Roy's back
16:55 this is great now he just wants to get
16:57 back up on his feet he wants to keep
16:58 serving in the Army he wants to keep
17:00 jumping out of planes he wants to go
17:02 back to Vietnam and be with his guys and
17:04 that's just how Roy is so he demands
17:05 that they start giving him physical
17:07 therapy as soon as possible and that's
17:08 what he does and over the course of a
17:09 couple weeks he comes to the painful
17:11 realization that these physical
17:13 therapists aren't getting him ready to
17:15 walk and run and be in the Army again
17:16 they're getting him mentally ready to
17:17 spend the rest of his life in a
17:19 wheelchair the doctors are telling him
17:20 he's never going to walk again he's
17:21 going to spend the rest of his life in a
17:23 wheelchair and he needs to accept that
17:25 but Roy Roy's not buying it if they're
17:27 not going to push him to get the results
17:28 that he wants he's going to push himself
17:30 night nurses come in they catch him they
17:31 give him a pill they knock him out they
17:33 put him to sleep he wakes up the next
17:35 morning his hip hurts from where he fell
17:37 out of bed and his leg muscles are sore
17:38 from bearing weight for the first time
17:40 in months but the plus side his hip
17:43 hurts and his legs are sore so obviously
17:44 they're going to work if he just keeps
17:46 building them up stronger and stronger
17:47 so that's what he does every night he
17:50 rolls out of bed he drags himself across
17:52 the floor lifts himself up and puts as
17:53 much weight on his legs as he possibly
17:55 can sometimes the nurses catch him and
17:57 try to put him back to sleep the nurses
17:58 are getting pissed off at him cuz he
18:00 keeps keeps doing this but his legs keep
18:02 getting stronger and stronger and he's
18:03 able to make it over to the nightst
18:06 faster and faster and it gets to the
18:07 point where all the other guys in this
18:09 medical Bay realize what he's doing and
18:10 they start cheering him on at night
18:12 nobody's ratting him out they're trying
18:14 to distract the nurses to get Roy the
18:15 time that he needs to be able to do his
18:17 version of physical therapy and this
18:18 goes on for months during the day
18:19 they're getting him ready for his life
18:21 in a wheelchair he's begging him just
18:23 more time for More PT and he'll be able
18:25 to walk again they're not buying it
18:26 they're doing the paperwork in the
18:28 background to get him Med boarded out of
18:30 the US Army they know that he's done but
18:31 Roy never gives up on himself and he
18:34 keeps training every single night then
18:36 after having been in the hospital for 5
18:37 months the doctor walks in with Roy's
18:40 discharge papers Roy begs and he pleads
18:42 not to discharge him out of the Army and
18:43 the doctor finally says Roy even if we
18:46 continue doing PT at best maybe you'll
18:48 be able to stand up one day you're never
18:49 going to be able to walk again at that
18:52 point Roy hops up out of the bed stands
18:53 directly in front of the doctor and
18:55 takes one step towards him and it was
18:57 one of the most excruciating pains that
18:59 he's ever felt in his entire life he's
19:01 got tears in his eyes but he's looking
19:02 this doctor right in his face and the
19:04 doctor shocked that Roy hopped out of
19:06 bed and took a step towards him says
19:08 benas if you can walk out of this room
19:11 I'll tear these papers up so Roy walked
19:19 room hold on hold on that hurt [ __ ] you
19:21 can walk shortly after that he walked
19:23 out of that hospital and went back to Fort
19:28 BR obviously he gets assigned to desk
19:30 job but despite that Roy's going to do
19:31 the best job he can no matter what tasks
19:33 they give him so he crushes that job the
19:35 best he can and when he goes home at
19:37 night he continues to train first he
19:38 starts walking a couple miles a day then
19:40 he's walking 5 miles a day then he's
19:43 running 5 miles a day then he's running
19:46 10 miles a day and doing 500 push-ups in
19:48 a single day every day and he works
19:51 himself up to being just as fast just as
19:53 strong as he ever was and then since he
19:56 did such a good job at that desk job he
19:57 kind of figured out how things worked
19:59 and then wouldn't you know it one day
20:01 out of the blue Roy benz's name ended up
20:03 on a manifest to do one of the jumps for
20:05 the 82 airborne's training not just one
20:09 manifest but three Roy did three jumps
20:11 in a single day after having broken his
20:13 back what are the odds of that what are
20:16 the odds of that and after having done
20:18 that Roy sits back relaxes reflects on
20:20 his Achi no I'm just kidding he goes out
20:21 and decides that he wants to become a
20:23 Green Beret now so he goes off to
20:25 Special Forces selection and he makes it
20:27 he passes he becomes a Green Beret on
20:29 one hand absolutely incredible it is
20:31 almost unbelievable that he's able to
20:33 accomplish this on the other hand it's
20:34 obvious that he was going to be able to
20:36 accomplish this right because if you
20:37 don't know about these Special Forces
20:39 groups it's never like the fastest the
20:41 strongest the freak athlete that ends up
20:43 making these special forces units it's
20:45 always just that tough Farm kid that
20:46 you're going to have to kill to get him
20:48 to stop it's that person that's never
20:50 going to quit and if there was ever a
20:52 embodiment of that archetype of person
20:54 it's Roy benovitz okay homie stepped on
20:57 a landmine and literally walked it off
20:58 of course he had What it Took to become
21:00 a green Barret that's just to get
21:01 selected to be in the unit though so
21:02 then he has to go off and get all of his
21:04 other training he becomes a linguist he
21:06 gets cross trained as a medic he gets
21:08 trained on every heavy weapon system he
21:10 becomes trained in Military Intelligence
21:11 the Gathering of information so he gets
21:13 done with all this training then he gets
21:14 orders that he is going to be deploying
21:16 to Central America here's the problem
21:18 Roy doesn't want to deploy to Central
21:20 America Roy wants to go back to Vietnam
21:21 so Roy goes back to that very same
21:23 office that he worked in for a little
21:24 while while he was training before he
21:25 became a Green Beret and wouldn't you
21:28 know it somehow or another his orders
21:30 got changed and he was sent to Vietnam
21:33 instead me but Roy wasn't just going to
21:34 be going to Vietnam he was going to be
21:36 going to other countries neighboring
21:39 Vietnam like Cambodia Roy was part of
21:40 MCV SOG okay real quick for those that
21:42 don't know MCV SOG at this point in time
21:45 is America's Premier top secret Special
21:47 Forces Group okay they take all the best
21:49 guys from all the other special forces
21:51 the Army Rangers the Marine Raiders the
21:53 Green Beret the Navy Seals they take
21:54 their best guys and they put them in
21:56 this unit together as like America's
21:58 Special Forces Dream Team basically
22:00 they're the ones doing all the stuff
22:02 that America's not doing you know this
22:04 group is so secretive that nobody even
22:06 knew that these guys existed until like
22:09 30 years after Vietnam okay SOG
22:10 everybody thinks it stands for Special
22:12 Operations group that's not what it
22:13 stands for it stands for studies and
22:15 observations group and they did that on
22:16 purpose because they wanted it to sound
22:18 like some nerd [ __ ] that way if a
22:20 politician or a high-ranking officer
22:21 that wasn't supposed to be in the no
22:23 read that on a document they weren't
22:24 going to ask any questions during
22:28 Vietnam these guys had a 150 to1 kill
22:30 death rate ratio for every Mac V SOG
22:33 member that went down 150 enemies went
22:34 down first and they do all kinds of
22:36 different crazy stuff during Vietnam but
22:37 when Roy gets linked up with them
22:39 they're working in Cambodia okay real
22:40 brief oversimplified version of what's
22:41 going on here you have the NBAA the
22:43 North Vietnamese Army and they are
22:45 trying to supply the Viet Kong the
22:47 gorilla fighters in South Vietnam with a
22:48 bunch of supplies now they have two
22:51 options they can punch through the front
22:52 line fight through all the American
22:54 defenses to deliver these supplies
22:56 doesn't sound like a very good time or
22:57 they could cheat they could just cut
22:59 right over into LA and then travel
23:01 through this neutral territory with no
23:03 resistance and then travel into Cambodia
23:04 more neutral territory with no
23:07 resistance penetrate way past all the
23:09 American front lines deep into South
23:11 Vietnam and then cut back in and drop
23:13 off all the supplies okay and to be fair
23:14 that's a brilliant plan because there's
23:16 not a whole lot America can do to stop
23:17 it right because the only thing America
23:19 really can do is to send their troops
23:21 into Cambodia and la and that's not
23:23 going to be a very popular idea
23:25 considering that most of America's mad
23:26 that they're in Vietnam in the first
23:27 place they're definitely not going to
23:29 support invading two more countries so
23:31 if America wants to stop this the only
23:32 thing they can do is to send their own
23:34 guys into this neutral territory where
23:35 they're not supposed to be to cut off
23:37 this supply line and then even if they
23:39 do run into each other in this neutral
23:40 territory it just turns into the
23:41 Spider-Man meme right hey you're not
23:42 supposed to be here no you're not
23:44 supposed to be here and then everybody's
23:46 just as guilty of breaking the same
23:48 rules it's a really good plan on their
23:49 part okay but here's the problem with
23:51 this whole thing America cares a lot
23:52 more about not getting caught in these
23:54 neutral territories than the North
23:55 Vietnamese do because of this the
23:57 Americans are only sending in very very
23:59 small groups groups of men like 12 guys
24:01 or less whereas the North Vietnamese are
24:03 sending in entire companies they're
24:05 sending in hundreds of guys so this
24:07 makes it impossible for the Americans to
24:09 directly confront the North Vietnamese
24:10 so rather than confronting them they
24:12 start stalking them they start tracking
24:13 them down and following them writing
24:16 down what their most commonly used pazar
24:17 what they're dropping off where they're
24:19 dropping it off they try to memorize all
24:20 their different routes they try to
24:22 figure out anything and everything they
24:24 can about their operations inside of LA
24:26 and Cambodia so that goes on for a while
24:27 and then somebody gets the bright idea
24:28 of like hey we know where all the
24:30 enemy's ammunition is what if we just
24:33 snuck in a bunch of defective ammunition
24:35 that blew up when they tried to fire it
24:37 and then it would not only a take care
24:38 of some of the enemy troops that got
24:40 messed up from you know a Howitzer round
24:42 blowing up or ammunition blowing up or
24:44 defective ammo and they go and try to
24:46 get into a firefight then the Americans
24:47 are guaranteed to win there's that
24:48 aspect but then there's also the
24:51 psychological aspect of the enemy isn't
24:52 going to trust their own supply line
24:54 anymore so then that goes on for a
24:55 little while and then eventually the
24:57 North Vietnamese and the Viet Kong
24:58 figure out that the Americans are doing
25:00 this so they start sending out their
25:02 best guys their equivalent of Mac B SOG
25:03 and they send them out into these
25:05 neutral territories to try to hunt and
25:08 kill the American macv SOG operators
25:10 because of that the MCV SOG casualty
25:11 rate goes up and at one point it was
25:13 actually reported as being a 100%
25:16 casualty rate if you were in MCV SOG
25:18 during this era there was a 100%
25:19 likelihood that you were going to get
25:22 injured or killed in the line of duty a
25:24 purple heart to these guys was just a
25:26 right of passage so MCV SOG starts
25:27 taking more casualties they realize
25:28 they're being hunted then they start
25:30 doing counter measures to prevent from
25:32 being caught they're having helicopters
25:34 go in and pretend to drop off a bunch of
25:35 operators when they're actually not
25:37 doing it basically spamming them that
25:39 way when they actually do go behind the
25:40 line the enem is not going to know
25:42 whether that was a fake drop off or a
25:43 real drop off so that's what's happening
25:45 there's like this Shadow war going on in
25:47 the neutral territories of Cambodia and
25:48 la and this is what's happening when Roy
25:50 shows up so two weeks into being there
25:51 Roy goes out on a mission and one of the
25:53 guys of he's with ends up getting shot
25:54 up and they have to get this guy metac
25:56 but they're still being attacked so they
25:57 can't go out in the open so a helicopter
25:59 can land so the helicopter has to drop
26:01 what's called a Maguire rig it's
26:03 basically just a rope that these guys
26:04 are going to hook on to and they're
26:05 going to pull them straight up out of
26:07 the canopy of the Jungle and fly off
26:09 with them dangling underneath the
26:11 helicopter like some badass Pinocchio
26:12 now usually when you do this like you
26:13 can see in this picture you're stacked
26:16 on top of one another on the same nylon
26:18 rope but for some reason on this day
26:20 they dropped two nylon ropes Roy HED the
26:22 other guy that's injured up to one and
26:23 he hooked himself up to the other and
26:25 Roy probably didn't even realize that
26:26 there was two ropes he just saw a bunch
26:28 of nylon rope everywhere he hooked both
26:29 of them up and they were going to take
26:31 off so they get pulled up out of the
26:33 canopy they take off headed towards camp
26:34 but because they're each on a different
26:37 rope the ropes end up getting crossed
26:38 and the nylon ropes start rubbing
26:40 together and when nylon rubs up against
26:42 nylon it melts because it's plastic so
26:44 these ropes are going to end up snapping
26:45 and Roy and his buddy are both going to
26:47 fall to their death unless they can land
26:49 and get this figured out and they can't
26:50 land because they're still being shot at
26:52 now luckily for Roy and the other guy
26:53 the bellyman in that helicopter was
26:55 another one of Roy's friends a sergeant
26:57 by the name of Leroy Wright and he
26:58 noticed what was going on and he ties
27:01 himself off to a third rope and lowers
27:03 himself out of the helicopter in between
27:05 the other two nylon ropes allowing his
27:08 body weight to untangle the ropes as he
27:15 them two days after that Roy wakes up in
27:17 his cot time to go get breakfast he
27:18 heads off towards the chow hall he's
27:21 making his way there and everything just
27:22 starts scrambling there's radio
27:24 Transmissions coming in saying it's a
27:26 Daniel Boone tactical emergency Daniel
27:28 Boone is the name of the operation in
27:29 Cambodia you're not supposed to be
27:31 saying that over the radio period which
27:33 means that [ __ ] has really hit the fan
27:35 somewhere everybody around him starts
27:37 scrambling helicopters start going out
27:38 and helicopters start coming back in all
27:40 shot up with injured men on them and Roy
27:41 goes up to one of these helicopters
27:43 trying to figure out what's going on and
27:45 the door gunner in this helicopter falls
27:48 out and it's a 19-year-old kid that Roy
27:49 remembered they just celebrated his
27:51 birthday like a week ago and this kid
27:54 falls into Roy's arms and dies on the
27:55 spot Roy asks the rest of the helicopter
27:57 crew what's going on what's Happening
27:58 and they tell him there's a team out
28:00 there that's getting overrun by hundreds
28:02 of NVA so Roy continues to ask him what
28:04 team who's out there did you pick them
28:06 up are they here now what's going on and
28:08 they go no we couldn't get close enough
28:09 to pick these guys up they were so
28:11 overrun and we were taking too much fire
28:13 from the helicopters it was we don't
28:15 know who it was but it was that the big
28:16 black dude that saved you the other day
28:18 and Roy immediately knows they're
28:20 talking about Leroy and his entire team
28:22 is still out there so Roy asks them are
28:24 you going back out there and they said
28:25 yeah we're going to go back out there
28:26 but we're not going to be able to land
28:27 the only thing we're going to be able to
28:29 do is drop drop ammunition out of the
28:30 helicopter above them so they have
28:32 ammunition to keep fighting and to Roy
28:34 benas it sounds an awful lot like
28:35 somebody needs help and with that he
28:38 runs over grabs his medical bag jumps in
28:40 the helicopter and they take off a
28:42 couple minutes into the flight there Roy
28:43 realizes that in his hurry to run and
28:45 grab his Aid bag so that he could help
28:48 he made a mistake a really really big
28:51 mistake he forgot his gun God damn it he
28:53 is now in a helicopter flying into
28:56 combat with no gun no food no water no
28:58 grenades he literally had has an 8in
29:01 Recon knife and his Aid bag and that is
29:03 it despite that Roy is still determined
29:05 to help these guys so they get there
29:06 they drop the ammunition out of the side
29:08 of the helicopter on top of these guys
29:10 and then they fly off and Roy says get
29:12 me as close as you can and land this
29:14 helicopter so I can jump out and they
29:16 get him like 100 150 yards away from
29:18 where this team is injured and pinned
29:20 down and Roy jumps out of the helicopter
29:22 and starts running towards them he makes
29:25 it 10 steps gets shot drops him he got
29:27 shot in the leg he tells himself that he
29:28 tripped and landed on on a thorn bush
29:30 and he's not actually shot but he knows
29:32 he's shot he keeps running towards him
29:34 and he makes it another 50 yards and he
29:35 gets shot again this time it's a
29:37 glancing blow to his helmet he doesn't
29:39 know that yet maybe he got shot in the
29:41 head maybe he didn't maybe it was
29:43 shrapnel he has no idea he'll figure it
29:44 out later if he makes it so he just
29:46 keeps running to the team and he finally
29:48 ends up making it to him so he makes it
29:49 to where the team is pinned down they're
29:51 all spread out way too far out they're
29:52 not in a defensive position they're
29:54 running out of ammunition every single
29:57 person there is shot blown up everybody
29:59 is in horrible shape so Roy gets to work
30:02 he picks up an AK-47 off a dead NVA
30:03 Soldier as he runs to each individual
30:06 team member giving a morphine whatever
30:07 Medical Aid he can and then dragging
30:10 them over to this anill this big pile of
30:11 dirt to get them in this defensive
30:12 position where they're actually semi
30:14 close together and they can start
30:16 fighting back Roy ends up making it to
30:17 the guy with the radio and he's like
30:19 this is Tango Mike Mike I've still got
30:20 men on the ground I need to get these
30:22 guys metac I have green smoke grenades
30:24 I'll pop them so you know where we're at
30:25 while the helicopters are on their way
30:27 Roy keeps going and getting more guys
30:28 and dragging them back the anill giving
30:30 himself and everybody else morphine the
30:32 helicopters finally show up the door
30:34 Gunners lay down suppressing fire and
30:36 Roy starts loading up the guys at the
30:38 anill onto the helicopter but he still
30:40 has more men out towards the bush line
30:41 that he hasn't been able to make it to
30:42 yet so he gets all the guys on the
30:44 helicopter and then he tells the door
30:46 gunner hey we still have men over there
30:49 cover me and Roy takes off running next
30:51 to the helicopter as the helicopter is
30:52 gliding next to him and him and the door
30:54 gunner are returning fire into the
30:56 Woodline trying to make it to the other
30:58 men so Roy and the helicopter make it to
30:59 the last guy that Roy knows of and it's
31:01 not Leroy so he asks this guy where's
31:03 Leroy at and that guy points him towards
31:05 the Woodline and says he got hit back
31:07 there and he's got a bunch of
31:09 confidential classified information on
31:10 him so Roy decides that he's going to go
31:12 get it he takes off running towards
31:13 where this guy pointed him out in the
31:15 Woodline but the helicopter can't follow
31:17 cuz it can't get that close to the trees
31:18 so the helicopter door gunner continues
31:20 to lay suppressing fire while Roy runs
31:22 into the tree line and finds Leroy's
31:24 Body he gets all the classified Intel
31:26 off Leroy's Body and then he begins
31:28 dragging Leroy's corpse towards the the
31:29 helicopter because he at least wants to
31:31 bring his friend's body home and then he
31:32 gets shot in the back as we all know
31:34 it's always darkest right before the
31:37 dawn but as we also all know sometimes
31:38 it's darkest right before it gets even
31:41 [ __ ] darker after being shot Roy
31:42 turns around realizing he's not going to
31:44 be able to bring his friend's body back
31:45 with him and starts running towards the
31:47 helicopter and then he sees the
31:49 helicopter pilot get shot through the
31:51 window as the helicopter spins out of
31:53 control and crashes Roy makes it to the
31:55 crash site and everybody there that
31:56 survived is pretty much ready to call it
31:58 a day they've accepted the fact that
32:00 they're about to die and Roy Roy hasn't
32:02 he starts dragging everybody getting
32:04 them away from the burning helicopter
32:05 and getting them into another defensive
32:07 position so that they can fight back
32:09 he's going and getting AK-47s off of
32:11 dead NVA soldiers getting these guys
32:13 guns he has guys that can't even see
32:15 they're missing eyes and he's just
32:17 telling them shoot that way under Roy's
32:19 leadership they start fighting back and
32:22 Roy starts calling in air strikes f-111s
32:24 F4 Phantoms gunships anything and
32:26 everything they have and they just start
32:28 bombing this tree line with all they've
32:31 got and they do it over and over but the
32:33 enemy soldiers just keep coming and
32:35 coming there's literally hundreds of
32:38 them and this goes on for hours it's too
32:39 hot for them to get a helicopter in
32:41 there to load people up and every time
32:43 they bomb the tree line more enemy
32:44 soldiers run out of it towards Roy and
32:46 his crew and it gets to the point that
32:48 they're literally using the dead bodies
32:50 of soldiers as sandbags to stop bullets
32:52 Roy and the men on the ground don't
32:53 realize it at this point in time but the
32:55 crews up in the gunships that are mowing
32:57 down the forest that the enemies are
32:58 coming from are are starting to mow down
33:00 so much vegetation that they're starting
33:02 to see straight lines which don't occur
33:04 naturally in nature these are bunkers
33:06 with fortified machine gun positions the
33:08 MCV SOG team didn't just stumble across
33:10 an entire Battalion of men they walked
33:12 right into an entire NVA base inside of
33:14 Cambodia eventually the air Crews come
33:15 to the realization that with this base
33:17 there there's got to be at least a
33:19 thousand men an entire Battalion there
33:20 and there's a road where they can bust
33:22 in even more men for reinforcements
33:24 they're not going to be able to keep
33:25 this up and get Roy and everybody else
33:27 to be alive and handle this the right
33:29 way so the only thing that they can do
33:32 is to have a carpet bomb of that forest
33:33 and at the exact same moment that those
33:34 bombs start dropping they're going to
33:36 send in the helicopters to try to pick
33:38 up Roy and everybody else so a group of
33:41 a37 super tweets bomb the tree line as a
33:43 huey comes down and Roy starts helping
33:44 to load these men into the helicopter
33:46 some of them have lost so much blood
33:48 they can't even pick themselves up and
33:49 while this is happening the North
33:51 Vietnamese soldiers rush them they're
33:52 coming straight towards the helicopter
33:54 they're firing Roy's trying to load the
33:56 men on while firing back the door
33:58 Gunners returning fire and one of them
34:00 ends up making it to Roy and for some
34:02 reason whether he was out of ammo or
34:03 whether he was trying to take an
34:05 American alive he hits Roy in the back
34:06 of the head with the buttstock of his
34:09 rifle Roy falls down and then he swings
34:11 it again at Roy's face dislocating his
34:13 jaw Roy somehow still conscious gets up
34:15 starts trying to wrestle this guy to the
34:17 ground he lost his gun all he has is his
34:19 Recon knife and this guy's got his rifle
34:21 with a Bayonet on it the enemy soldier
34:23 goes to Lunge at Roy with the bayonet
34:25 ends up cutting Roy's arm and then Roy
34:27 lunges at him misses the enemy soldier
34:30 lunges back he ends up stabbing Roy in
34:31 the stomach with the bayonet and Roy
34:33 ends up getting to him with the Recon
34:34 knife stabbing him in the chest and
34:37 killing him Roy pulls out the bayonet
34:38 can't get his Recon knife out of this
34:40 guy's chest and he's now holding his
34:42 intestines in his stomach with one hand
34:44 at this point Roy's right next to the
34:45 helicopter and he's looking right at it
34:48 he should get in the helicopter but he
34:50 turns around away from the helicopter
34:51 and there's two Americans still out
34:54 there returning fire that are able to
34:56 fight they're just not able to walk and
34:58 Roy runs towards them Roy gets there
35:00 picks up the one that can't walk
35:02 entirely and starts helping to drag him
35:04 towards the helicopter and the other guy
35:07 can't crawl but he can't walk so he
35:09 literally starts walking on his knees
35:11 using an AK-47 like it's a crutch they
35:13 get to the helicopter Roy helps load
35:16 them in the helicopter grabs the AK-47
35:18 that the guy was using as a crutch turns
35:21 around again and starts shooting at NBA
35:22 soldiers that are charging towards the
35:25 helicopter as the injured men behind him
35:28 literally grab Roy and drag him into the
35:29 helicopter as they take off as it
35:31 becomes clear to absolutely everyone
35:33 that Roy benovitz did not just bring a
35:35 knife to a gunfight the Communist
35:37 brought an army to a Roy benovitz fight
35:39 and still couldn't win after saving all
35:41 the surviving members of the original
35:43 MCV SOG team and the first helicopter
35:46 crew through 6 hours of combat Roy has
35:48 sustained over 37 different
35:50 life-threatening injuries multiple
35:53 gunshot wounds over 20 shrapnel wounds
35:55 he has been bayonetted and he has been
35:57 clubbed and after being dragged into the
35:59 helicopter he finally loses
36:07 wound his next memory is being literally
36:10 waste deep inside of a body bag as an
36:12 American medic is zipping it up his eyes
36:14 are caked with blood and he can't open
36:16 them he can't talk to the medic because
36:19 his jaw is dislocated and he's lost so
36:21 much blood that he can't move and from
36:23 the medic's perspective he doesn't even
36:24 realize that Roy's an American because
36:26 he's hispanic he's got the same skin
36:28 tone as a North Vietnamese and Roy's
36:30 Body is literally laying on top of three
36:34 dead NVA soldiers that in Roy's fog of
36:37 morphine and adrenaline he loaded into
36:38 the helicopter because he didn't want to
36:40 leave anybody behind Roy can literally
36:42 feel the teeth on the zipper closing as
36:44 it gets closer and closer to his head
36:46 and once the zipper reaches his neck
36:48 somebody stops the medic and says hold
36:51 on that's Ben AAS and he instructs the
36:53 medic to double check and make sure that
36:55 Roy is actually dead and the medic
36:57 argues with him and Roy's Buddies says I
37:00 don't care double check and the medic
37:02 Zips down the body bag a little bit and
37:04 puts his hand on Roy's chest and leans
37:05 forward to listen and see if he can hear
37:08 breathing and at this moment Roy takes
37:10 what he describes as the best shot he's
37:12 ever made in his entire life he spits
37:14 directly in that medic's face give him
37:16 that hu to and with that they get Roy
37:17 out of the body bag they get him in the
37:19 Aid Station and they start trying to do
37:20 everything they can for him but they're
37:21 almost positive that he's not going to
37:23 make it after his chain of command
37:24 figured out everything that had happened
37:26 and that Roy was pretty much the only
37:27 reason that the eight other men that
37:29 survived made it out of their alive
37:31 immediately got him signed up to receive
37:32 the distinguished service cross the only
37:34 reason they didn't try to get him the
37:35 Medal of Honor on the spot was because
37:37 they didn't think Roy was going to
37:38 survive and they wanted to get him an
37:40 award that they could give him in the
37:42 field so that he could receive it before
37:44 he passed away but Roy Benz had other
37:47 plans he doesn't pass away instead he
37:50 recovers and not only does he recover he
37:53 yet again refuses to get Med boarded out
37:55 of the army into a medical retirement
37:57 and continues to serve an additional 10
37:59 years in the United States Army and
38:00 during that time they try to get him
38:02 awarded the Medal of Honor because if
38:04 anybody deserves it it's this guy right
38:06 but for some reason or another it always
38:08 ends up getting rejected and it gets
38:10 rejected again and again and over and
38:12 over they just keep rejecting his Medal
38:13 of Honor but there's nothing that Roy or
38:15 anybody else could do for some reason or
38:16 another the committee in charge of
38:18 awarding the Medal of Honor simply did
38:20 not want to give master sergeant Roy
38:22 benovitz the award that he had earned so
38:23 he did the only thing he could do he
38:26 just kept on keeping on so he went on
38:27 served throughout the military until
38:30 1976 before finally retiring as Master
38:32 Sergeant benovitz the recipient of the
38:33 distinguished service cross as Roy
38:35 retires there was another press push
38:37 about how incredible he was wondering
38:38 why he didn't earn the Medal of Honor
38:40 and this ends up connecting him with one
38:42 of the men that he had saved that Roy
38:44 actually thought had died and this man
38:46 gets a hold of Roy almost 12 years after
38:48 the fact and he tells Roy that he's
38:50 going to write up everything that he
38:51 witnessed and send it into this
38:54 committee again and yet again even
38:56 despite all this new information the
38:57 committee in charge of awarding the
39:00 Medal of Honor rejected it again and
39:01 then they realized what they were doing
39:03 wrong they were telling the whole truth
39:05 they were saying that Roy hopped in a
39:07 helicopter flew into Cambodia and helped
39:09 save a bunch of MCV SOG members and as
39:10 far as the US government's concerned at
39:12 this point in time up until like the mid
39:16 80s MCV SOG a doesn't exist and B if it
39:18 did it definitely would not be operating
39:20 in a neutral territory like LA or
39:23 Cambodia because that was against the
39:25 rules I can neither confirm nor deny
39:27 details of any operation without the secretary's
39:28 secretary's
39:31 approval so the politicians and the
39:32 bureaucrats in charge realized that if
39:34 they give Roy the Medal of Honor for
39:36 saving MCV SOG members in Cambodia which
39:38 wasn't supposed to be happening there
39:40 could be political backlash and they're
39:41 not going to metaphorically stick their
39:43 necks on the line just to give Roy what
39:45 he deserves despite the fact that Roy
39:47 put his entire life on the line for them
39:49 so bearing this in mind they redo all
39:50 the paperwork they jump through all the
39:52 Hoops to try to get Roy the Medal of
39:53 Honor again and this time rather than
39:55 saying that Roy's courageous actions
39:58 occurred in Cambodia they simply said
40:01 that they happened to the west of lockin
40:03 Airfield which was where Roy was
40:05 stationed they just didn't bother to say
40:07 how far west and once you know it it
40:09 gets approved Roy Ben aidz receives the
40:11 Medal of Honor in 1981 from President
40:15 Ronald Reagan 15 years after the fact
40:17 after getting what he had earned he
40:19 finally gets to go home with his wife
40:21 and kids and enjoy his retirement for
40:23 all of like a year and a half because on
40:26 a random day in 1983 he receives a
40:27 letter in the mail from the US
40:29 Government informing him that he would
40:31 not continue to receive his veterans
40:33 disability benefits from his injuries
40:35 that he sustained during the war and
40:36 Roy's not having it he goes straight to
40:38 the media starts putting out press
40:40 releases and giving interviews talking
40:42 about how ridiculous this is and putting
40:44 political pressure right back on the
40:45 politicians and wouldn't you know it a
40:47 couple weeks later the US government
40:49 comes out with a statement of like oh
40:51 hey we're sorry that we're doing this we
40:52 haven't been handling it appropriately
40:54 we're going to continue to do it but
40:56 we're going to do it in a more humane
40:58 way for everybody involved and while I
40:59 can't prove this I'm willing to
41:01 guarantee that Roy benav has got the
41:03 notification of like oh sorry you got
41:04 that letter obviously this doesn't apply
41:07 to such a high-profile person that's got
41:09 enough leverage to be a pain in our ass
41:10 here's your benefits but we're going to
41:12 go ahead and [ __ ] everybody else and Roy
41:14 wasn't going to allow it he came out and
41:15 said that if they can try to do this to
41:17 him he can't imagine what they're going
41:19 to try to do to everybody else so he
41:21 keeps fighting for not only himself but
41:23 for the other
41:25 350,000 veterans that were getting their
41:26 benefits cut right because they need
41:28 help too and Roy's going to help him so
41:30 he keeps pushing and putting more
41:31 pressure on the US government basically
41:33 just comes out and says hey the same
41:35 Ronald Reagan administration that gave
41:37 me my Medal of Honor is now telling me
41:39 and a bunch of other veterans that we're
41:41 not good enough for the benefits that we
41:43 earned and with that he finally gets to
41:45 testify in front of the house senate
41:47 committee in charge of this entire
41:49 operation and they end up shutting the
41:51 entire thing down preserving the
41:52 benefits for
41:55 350,000 veterans and with that Roy
41:57 benitz could finally go home enjoy eny
41:59 his retirement and live happily ever
42:02 after so in conclusion when somebody
42:04 needs help you help them and for the
42:06 love of God the fact that somebody
42:08 renamed Fort Brag Fort Liberty and not
42:11 Fort benovitz instead is borderline
42:13 criminal thank you for watching best way
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42:23 out oh hey real quick if you guys wanted
42:25 more there's a book called legend by
42:27 Eric blim all about Roy benv the author
42:28 spent like three and a half years
42:30 researching for it and he actually
42:32 helped me make this video so if you guys
42:33 wanted to check it out it's over on
42:35 Amazon and I'm sure it's on his website
42:36 if you wanted to Google it too I'll have
42:38 it all linked down below thanks for
42:41 watching after that PlayStation comment
42:45 I'm taking these back come on that's not
42:48 funny I want those no it locked in on
42:52 stag are and start unloading start
42:54 identifying the bodies they found out I
43:02 helicopter I didn't want to leave anybody
43:03 anybody
43:06 behind my mission was to recover the
43:07 classified material so if anybody had it
43:10 that he was on a helicopter they left
43:12 the three enemy soldiers on the side and
43:15 because I sort of look Oriental they
43:16 thought I was one of them so it let me
43:17 lay right next to them and they were
43:20 putting us in body bags and I remember
43:23 my feet been lifted and I was inserted
43:25 into this body bag and I could hear that
43:28 zipper coming up and I oh my God no no
43:29 and I couldn't talk because my jaws were
43:31 locked and I could hear that Dipper
43:33 coming up coming up and one of my
43:36 buddies was doing the Mexican head dance
43:37 and he was yelling at the doctor that's
43:40 Roy that's Roy Ben doctor said sorry
43:42 there's nothing I can do for him I'll
43:45 find out later Jerry cottonham made that
43:47 doctor at least to feel my heartbeat
43:50 when I felt that hand on my chest I made
43:53 the luckiest shot I ever made in my life
43:56 I spit in the doctor's
43:59 face you know there's a sin Among Us
44:01 Veterans for those that had fought for
44:04 it life has a special flavor that
44:07 protected will never know you have never
44:11 lived till you almost died and it is US
44:15 veterans that pray for peace most of all
44:18 especially the wounded because we have
44:22 to suffer the wounds of War I'm asked
44:23 hundreds of
44:26 times would you do it over again in my
44:29 25 years in the military I feel like
44:33 I've been overpaid for the service to my
44:36 country there'll never be enough paper
44:38 to print the
44:42 money nor enough gold in Fort Knox for
44:46 me to have to keep from doing what I did
44:48 I'm proud of being American and I'm even
44:49 proud of that I've earned the privilege
44:52 to wear the Green Beret I live by the
44:57 motto of duty honor country l ladies and
45:01 gentlemen thank you very much thank you
