President Biden on Friday will host a Medal of Honor ceremony for an Army Special Forces veteran who has waited close to six decades to receive the nation's top award for military valor since his heroic actions in Vietnam.
March 3, 2023, 6:08 AMAs Billy Cole, Davis' commanding officer, arrives on the battlefield, Cole spots Davis carrying Waugh fireman-style. Noting Davis' wounds, Cole tells Davis to leave with the wounded.on Friday will host a Medal of Honor ceremony for an Army Special Forces veteran who has waited close to six decades to receive the nation's top award for military valor since his heroic actions in Vietnam.
"He said that it was overrun by the Viet Cong. He thought through my training and the way that I handled myself that I could handle being in a situation where there were more enemies than there were friends," Davis told ABC News during an interview Thursday. Davis leads assault in the early morning at Bong Song, clearing an enemy headquarters hut. He is wounded in the forearm."Davis was wounded leading the initial assault, but continued moving forward, personally engaging the enemy in hand-to-hand combat and killing several enemy soldiers," the Army said in a release.
Now injured several times over, Davis saw two American comrades seriously hurt, but across enemy lanes of fire. As Billy Cole, Davis' commanding officer, arrives on the battlefield, Cole spots Davis carrying Waugh fireman-style. Noting Davis' wounds, Cole tells Davis to leave with the wounded.Davis described a war of words with the senior officer.
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