{"id":2020164,"date":"2023-09-02T09:55:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-to-award-medal-of-honor-to-helicopter-pilot-for-vietnam-war-heroism\/"},"modified":"2023-09-02T09:58:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:58:48","slug":"biden-to-award-medal-of-honor-to-helicopter-pilot-for-vietnam-war-heroism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-to-award-medal-of-honor-to-helicopter-pilot-for-vietnam-war-heroism\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden to honor Vietnam War pilot with Medal of Honor."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-to-award-medal-of-honor-to-helicopter-pilot-for-vietnam-war-heroism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2020164&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>President \u2063Joe Biden\u2063 to Award Medal of Honor to U.S. Army Captain \u2064Larry \u2063Taylor for \u200dHeroic \u2063Vietnam War \u200dRescue Mission<\/h2>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2062 will give the\u200d nation&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/three-u-s-soldiers-awarded-medal-of-honor\/\" title=\"Three U.S. soldiers awarded Medal of Honor\">highest military honor<\/a> to U.S. Army Captain Larry Taylor for his heroism while serving\u2064 as a helicopter \u2062pilot and rescuing\u2062 four fellow soldiers \u2064in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline-director-claims-that-a-high-level-counterterrorism-official-helped-with-the-eco-terrorist-thriller\/\" title=\"\u201cHow to Blow up a Pipeline\u201d Director Claims That a High Level \u201cCounterterrorism\u201d Official Helped With the \u201cEco-Terrorist Thriller\u201d\">daring mission<\/a> during the\u200b Vietnam War in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>The White House announced in\u2064 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2023\/09\/01\/president-joseph-r-biden-jr-to-award-the-medal-of-honor-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> on Sept. 1 \u200cthat Mr. Taylor will receive\u200c the Medal of Honor on Sept. 5 during\u2063 a ceremony at the\u200c White House.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Taylor&#8217;s conspicuous gallantry, his profound \u2063concern for his fellow Soldiers, and his intrepidity at the\u2063 risk of his life\u200b above and\u200b beyond the call\u200d of duty are in keeping with \u2063the highest\u2063 traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon \u200chimself, his unit, and\u2064 the\u2063 United States\u2063 Army,&#8221; the White House said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Related \u2063Story<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/hes-home-missing-73-years-medal-of-honor-recipients-remains-return-to-georgia-5297739\"><strong>&#8216;He&#8217;s \u2063Home&#8217;: Missing 73 Years,\u200b Medal of \u200dHonor Recipient&#8217;s Remains \u2062Return to Georgia<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">5\/29\/2023<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mr. Taylor, a Tennessee native, graduated from\u2063 the University of Tennessee before enlisting in the U.S. Army Reserve in June 1966. After receiving training at the Army Armor School at \u2063Fort Knox, Kentucky, he decided to follow a different path and pursued a\u2062 career as a pilot rather than an armor officer.<\/p>\n<p>In August 1967, Mr. Taylor was sent \u200cto South Vietnam, where he\u200b flew hundreds of combat missions in \u2064UH-1 and Cobra helicopters during his one-year deployment. He \u2063was released\u2063 from active duty in August 1970, having attained the rank of captain, and was discharged from the U.S. Army Reserve on Oct. 17, 1973.<\/p>\n<h2>Rescue Mission<\/h2>\n<p>On the night of \u2063June 18, 1968, Mr. Taylor\u200d took off in his\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-begins-israel-calls-up-thousands-of-troops-positions-heavy-machinery-for-ground-offensive\/\" title=\"IT BEGINS: Israel Calls Up Thousands Of Troops, Positions Heavy Machinery For Ground Offensive\">attack helicopter<\/a> to rescue four men on a long-range reconnaissance team that \u200dhad \u2062become surrounded and\u2062 was\u2063 in danger of being overrun by enemy troops. He had to figure out a way to get them out, otherwise &#8220;they wouldn&#8217;t make it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>David \u200dHill, \u2062one of the men \u2062Mr. \u2063Taylor \u200bsaved that night, said he and three\u200c other soldiers were on a night mission to track the movement\u2062 of enemy troops in a village near the Saigon River \u200dwhen they were found by North\u2062 Vietnamese and Viet\u2064 Cong troops. An\u200c intense firefight ensued and soon they were running out of \u2062ammunition. They radioed for help.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Taylor flew \u200boff in\u2063 his attack helicopter, \u2064arriving just minutes later at the site northeast \u200bof what at the time was Saigon\u2014since renamed\u200d Ho Chi Minh City. He asked the patrol team to\u200d send up some flares to mark\u200c their location\u200b in \u2064the dark. Mr. Taylor and a pilot in an accompanying helicopter started firing their ships&#8217; \u2062mini-guns and\u2063 aerial rockets at the\u2064 enemy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-to-award-medal-of-honor-to-helicopter-pilot-for-vietnam-war-heroism\/\" title=\"Biden to honor Vietnam War pilot with Medal of Honor.\">making low-level attack\u200b runs<\/a> and \u200dbraving intense ground fire for about half an hour.<\/p>\n<p>But with both helicopters nearly\u200c out of ammunition and the enemy continuing to \u2063advance, Mr. Taylor surveyed the team&#8217;s intended escape \u200croute to a point near the river and concluded that the men would be overrun if they tried\u200c to get there, so he had to think\u200d of\u200b another plan.<\/p>\n<p>Running low\u2063 on fuel and ammunition, Mr. Taylor directed \u2064his\u2064 wingman to fire the rounds left in his mini-gun along the team&#8217;s eastern flank \u200dand\u200b then head \u200cback to\u2063 base \u200ccamp, \u2062while Mr. \u2064Taylor fired his remaining rounds\u200c on the western flank. \u2063He used the helicopter&#8217;s landing lights to \u2062distract the enemy, buying time for the\u200c patrol team to head south and east toward a \u200bdifferent extraction point he had identified.<\/p>\n<p>After they \u200darrived, Mr. Taylor landed under heavy \u200cenemy fire and at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-shooting-puts-2-officers-in-the-hospital-in-critical-condition-police-chief-says\/\" title=\"Florida shooting leaves 2 officers critically injured, says Police Chief.\">great personal\u2063 risk<\/a>. The four team members rushed toward the\u2064 helicopter and clung\u200b to the exterior\u2014it only had two seats\u2014and Mr. Taylor \u200bwhisked them away to safety. He was on \u2064the ground for about \u200b10\u200c seconds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I finally just flew\u200d up\u2064 behind them \u200band sat down on the ground,&#8221; Mr. Taylor said during a telephone interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden will award the Medal of Honor to U.S. Army Captain Larry Taylor for his heroic actions as a helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War. The White House confirmed this on Sept. 1, recognizing Taylor&#8217;s bravery in rescuing four soldiers during a daring mission in 1968.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":2020165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2020164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2020164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2020165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}