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Wartime Stories

The Man Who Never Quit

Wartime Stories

Ballen Studios

Society & Culture

4.8781 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Roy Benavidez becomes a Green Beret and saves the lives of eight fellow soldiers.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Two miles out of round, please.

0:03.0

Stay on your current hearing.

0:05.0

Back really, round, for bank right, we are taking hits.

0:14.0

Abort extraction, import extraction.

0:17.0

Get that chopper back in here.

0:20.0

Get them out of there.

0:21.7

That is a toss.

0:22.9

That is truck me.

0:24.2

That is Charlie.

0:26.1

Shit, with me!

0:31.1

On May 2nd, 1968, two six-man U.S. Special Forces teams found their covert reconnaissance operation severely compromised.

0:41.0

Miles behind enemy lines, they were pinned down under the relentless fire from hundreds of advancing

0:47.5

North Vietnamese soldiers. Like the mutilated crew members of the three helicopters that had attempted

0:53.5

to land and extract

0:55.0

them, four of the Special Forces men were now dead.

0:59.2

The remaining eight men all severely wounded, running low on both ammunition and their own blood.

1:06.3

Back at the team's forward operations base, a young Army Green Beret named Roy, had awoken to witness the crippled

1:12.5

helicopters crash landing on the tarmac outside, an exciting first day for him, as he had just arrived the day prior.

1:20.7

Skipping his breakfast to instead walk over to the damaged helicopters, also known as Slicks, he began asking if anyone knew the names of the men on the

1:29.3

recon teams under fire. When they told him, his heart froze. His friends were out there.

1:39.2

There was a hum of turbines. Roy spun around. One of the slicks was starting its takeoff procedures to go back.

1:46.0

Without hesitation, Roy grabbed a medical bag laying on the ground,

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