As Blehm ( Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown, 2012, etc.) divines, it was probably that geographical detail that kept Benavidez from winning a Medal of Honor, something corrected a dozen years after the fact. Unfortunately for all concerned, their battle took place in supposedly neutral Cambodia, where Americans weren’t supposed to be. He was also extraordinarily valiant, knowingly putting himself in harm’s way to save his fellow fighters when their mission took them into a hornet’s nest of North Vietnamese soldiers. Roy Benavidez (1935-1998) was the first noncommissioned officer to be awarded a West Point saber and the first enlisted soldier to lend his name to a Navy ship. Sometimes-trudging, sometimes-moving narrative of a combat mission gone terribly wrong and the layers of politics and memory surrounding it.
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