{"id":66950,"date":"2016-07-18T11:16:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T15:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66950"},"modified":"2016-07-18T15:54:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T19:54:40","slug":"major-chuck-kettles-medal-of-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66950","title":{"rendered":"Major Chuck Kettle’s Medal of Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We’ve been writing about Chuck Kettle’s Medal of Honor since last year<\/a>. Today it happened that his Distinguished Service Cross was moved up a notch in the White House. TSO is there taking pictures for us and I’ve already informed the Secret Service of the danger that comes with him. I’ll update this post as I get more pictures, but here’s the first one;<\/p>\n

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Here is the citation for his DSC<\/a>, which I imagine, won’t change much;<\/p>\n

Major (Field Artillery) Charles S. Kettles (ASN: 0-1938018), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations involving conflict with an armed hostile force in the Republic of Vietnam, while serving with 176th Aviation Company (Airmobile) (Light), 14th Combat Aviation Battalion, Americal Division. Major Kettles distinguished himself by exceptionally valorous actions on 15 May 1967 while serving as aircraft commander of a helicopter supporting infantry operations near Duc Pho. An airborne Infantry unit had come under heavy enemy attack and had suffered casualties. Major Kettles immediately volunteered to carry reinforcements to the embattled force and evacuate their wounded from the battle site. Although friendly artillery had pounded the hostile positions, the enemy was well entrenched and fighting fiercely. Major Kettles led a flight of helicopters into the landing zone through a savage barrage. Small arms and automatic weapons fire raked the landing zone and inflicted heavy damage to the ships, but Major Kettles refused to leave the ground until all the craft were loaded to capacity. He then led them out of the battle area. He later returned to the battlefield with more reinforcements and landed in the midst of a rain of mortar and automatic weapons fire which wounded his gunner and ruptured his fuel tank. After leading more wounded aboard, he nursed the crippled craft back to his base. He then secured another ship and led a flight of six helicopters to extract the Infantry unit. All but eight men had been loaded when Major Kettles directed the flight to take off. Completely disregarding his safety, he maneuvered his lone craft through a savage enemy fusillade to where the remainder of the Infantrymen waited. Mortar fire blasted out his windshield, but he remained on the ground until the men were aboard. The enemy concentrated massive firepower on his helicopter and another mortar round badly damaged his tail boom, but he once more skillfully guided his heavily damaged ship to safety. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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