10/31/2025
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YES, the US Navy has paratroopers, too!
Here's the story of one US Navy SEAL who earned the Medal of Honor:
"Today, we celebrate the anniversary of the accomplishments of a living legend.
On October 31, 1972, Michael Edwin Thornton was part of a three-man Navy SEAL patrol in Vietnam on an intelligence-gathering and prisoner capture operation against an enemy naval river base.
As the patrol reached land and approached on foot, it suddenly came under heavy fire. Outnumbered, the SEALs called in naval gunfire support and then engaged the enemy in a fierce firefight, inflicting many enemy casualties before moving back to the waterline to prevent encirclement.
Then Thornton learned his senior adviser had been hit by enemy fire and was believed to be dead. Thornton returned to the lieutenant's last position under fire and quickly disposed of two enemy soldiers. Still under fire, he removed the seriously wounded and unconscious senior advisor to the water's edge.
He then inflated the lieutenant's life jacket and swam to sea, towing the unconscious man for approximately two hours until picked up by support craft.
By his extraordinary courage and perseverance, Thornton was directly responsible for saving the life of his superior officer and enabling the safe extraction of all patrol members, thereby upholding the highest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service."
Interestingly, this was an action where a Medal of Honor recipient saved another Medal of Honor recipient
Read and listen to more about it here:
https://www.talesofhonorpodcast.com/stories/michael-e-thornton
RESPECT - AATW
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