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Jerry Callo

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Crockett was from Tennessee, Travis was from South Carolina, and Houston and Austin were born in Virginia.  I took OPs list as BAF who were important to Texas not born and raised here.  IIRC, Crockett was only here for three months and at the time here was technically Mexico.

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This thread needs more Roy Benavidez.

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BENAVIDEZ, ROY P.
Rank and organization: Master Sergeant. Organization: Detachment B-56, 5th Special Forces Group, Republic of Vietnam
Place and date: West of Loc Ninh on May 2, 1968
Entered service at: Houston, Texas June 1955
Born: August 5, 1935, DeWitt County, Cuero, Texas.

Master Sergeant (then Staff Sergeant) Roy P. BENAVIDEZ United States Army, distinguished himself by a series of daring and extremely valorous actions on 2 May 1968 while assigned to Detachment B56, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1st Special Forces, Republic of Vietnam.

On the morning of 2 May 1968, a 12-man Special Forces Reconnaissance Team was inserted by helicopters of the 240th Assault Helicopter Company in a dense jungle area west of Loc Ninh, Vietnam to gather intelligence information about confirmed large-scale enemy activity. This area was controlled and routinely patrolled by the North Vietnamese Army. After a short period of time on the ground, the team met heavy enemy resistance, and requested emergency extraction. Three helicopters attempted extraction, but were unable to land due to intense enemy small arms and anti-aircraft fire.

Sergeant BENAVIDEZ was at the Forward Operating Base in Loc Ninh monitoring the operation by radio when these helicopters, of the 240th Assault Helicopter Company, returned to off-load wounded crew members and to assess aircraft damage. Sergeant BENAVIDEZ voluntarily boarded a returning aircraft to assist in another extraction attempt. Realizing that all the team members were either dead or wounded and unable to move to the pickup zone, he directed the aircraft to a nearby clearing where he jumped from the hovering helicopter, and ran approximately 75 meters under withering small arms fire to the crippled team.

Prior to reaching the team's position he was wounded in his right leg, face, and head. Despite these painful injuries, he took charge, repositioning the team members and directing their fire to facilitate the landing of an extraction aircraft, and the loading of wounded and dead team members. He then threw smoke canisters to direct the aircraft to the team's position. Despite his severe wounds and under intense enemy fire, he carried and dragged half of the wounded team members to the awaiting aircraft. He then provided protective fire by running alongside the aircraft as it moved to pick up the remaining team members. As the enemy's fire intensified, he hurried to recover the body and classified documents on the dead team leader.

When he reached the leader's body, Sergeant BENAVIDEZ was severely wounded by small arms fire in the abdomen and grenade fragments in his back. At nearly the same moment, the aircraft pilot was mortally wounded, and his helicopter crashed. Although in extremely critical condition due to his multiple wounds, Sergeant BENAVIDEZ secured the classified documents and made his way back to the wreckage, where he aided the wounded out of the overturned aircraft, and gathered the stunned survivors into a defensive perimeter. Under increasing enemy automatic weapons and grenade fire, he moved around the perimeter distributing water and ammunition to his weary men, reinstilling in them a will to live and fight. Facing a buildup of enemy opposition with a beleaguered team, Sergeant BENAVIDEZ mustered his strength, began calling in tactical air strikes and directed the fire from supporting gunships to suppress the enemy's fire and so permit another extraction attempt.

He was wounded again in his thigh by small arms fire while administering first aid to a wounded team member just before another extraction helicopter was able to land. His indomitable spirit kept him going as he began to ferry his comrades to the craft. On his second trip with the wounded, he was clubbed from behind by an enemy soldier. In the ensuing hand-to-hand combat, he sustained additional wounds to his head and arms before killing his adversary.[5][note 1] He then continued under devastating fire to carry the wounded to the helicopter. Upon reaching the aircraft, he spotted and killed two enemy soldiers who were rushing the craft from an angle that prevented the aircraft door gunner from firing upon them. With little strength remaining, he made one last trip to the perimeter to ensure that all classified material had been collected or destroyed, and to bring in the remaining wounded.

Only then, in extremely serious condition from numerous wounds and loss of blood, did he allow himself to be pulled into the extraction aircraft. Sergeant BENAVIDEZ' gallant choice to join voluntarily his comrades who were in critical straits, to expose himself constantly to withering enemy fire, and his refusal to be stopped despite numerous severe wounds, saved the lives of at least eight men. His fearless personal leadership, tenacious devotion to duty, and extremely valorous actions in the face of overwhelming odds were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service, and reflect the utmost credit on him and the United States Army.[6]

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Knoxtnhorn

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7 hours ago, 4th_and_18 said:

Honorable mention:
Quanah Parker: never lost to the white man
Ma Ferguson: pardoned thousands of drunks while maintaining a public image of being a teetotaler
Barbara Jordan
Jose Navarro
Babe Didrikson



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Not trying to be an ass but didn’t Parker surrender to the white man in 1875?  Plus, isn’t one of his major criticisms that he basically ended up adopting European culture over his own later in life?  

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1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

This thread needs more Roy Benavidez.

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Thank you for posting this. I've never heard of this man before reading the linked Wikipedia page. After reading that I would put him at the top of the lists of bad asses not just from Texas but anywhere.

 

Here is an excerpt from his time in Vietnam:

The doctor was about to zip up the body bag when Benavidez spat in his face, alerting the doctor that he was alive.[3] (see medal citation below)

The six-hour battle left Benavidez with seven major gunshot wounds, twenty-eight shrapnel holes, and both his arms were slashed by a bayonet. He had shrapnel in his head, scalp, shoulder, buttocks, feet, and legs, his right lung was destroyed, and he had injuries to his mouth and back of his head from being clubbed with a rifle butt. A bullet shot from an AK-47 entered his back and exited just beneath his heart.

 

Oh did I mention that these injuries occurred after he heard that a 12 man patrol was surrounded by over 1000 NVA and volunteered to assist arriving armed with his medical bag and a knife?

 

Oh and this is after stepping on a landmine in 1965 and going against doctors orders (who thought him to be permanently paralyzed) to teach himself to walk again. 

Some men are just made of something different. RIP Master Sergeant.

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George Foreman

Jack Johnson

LBJ

Ann Richards

Dick Dowling

Tommy Nobis

Staff Sergeant Macario Garcia, who was not an American citizen until after the war -- 

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Staff Sergeant Marcario García, Company B, 22nd Infantry, in action involving actual conflict with the enemy in the vicinity of Grosshau, Germany, 27 November 1944. While an acting squad leader, he single-handedly assaulted two enemy machine gun emplacements. Attacking prepared positions on a wooded hill, which could be approached only through meager cover. His company was pinned down by intense machine-gun fire and subjected to a concentrated artillery and mortar barrage. Although painfully wounded, he refused to be evacuated and on his own initiative crawled forward alone until he reached a position near an enemy emplacement. Hurling grenades, he boldly assaulted the position, destroyed the gun, and with his rifle killed three of the enemy who attempted to escape. When he rejoined his company, a second machine-gun opened fire and again the intrepid soldier went forward, utterly disregarding his own safety. He stormed the position and destroyed the gun, killed three more Germans, and captured four prisoners. He fought on with his unit until the objective was taken and only then did he permit himself to be removed for medical care. S/Sgt. (then Pvt.) Garcia's conspicuous heroism, his inspiring, courageous conduct, and his complete disregard for his personal safety wiped out two enemy emplacements and enabled his company to advance and secure its objective.
 

Jack Hays

Charles Goodnight

Frank Hamer

Ramiro Martinez

 

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7 hours ago, DanRydell said:

Eisenhower lived in Texas for less than two years and was too young to remember a second of it.

Chris Kyle was a liar, a narcissist, and a sociopath.

Just wanted to echo this in regards to Chris Kyle.  Not a fan. 

Charlie Beckwith died here and would probably have self-identified as a Georgian, but that's a real badass if we're keeping it to veterans.  Also not a self-promoter prone to making outlandish lies like Kyle. 

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11 hours ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

Not trying to be an ass but didn’t Parker surrender to the white man in 1875?  Plus, isn’t one of his major criticisms that he basically ended up adopting European culture over his own later in life?  

He was also half white. So even if he didn't ever surrender to the white man his father surrendered to the white woman. Still undefeated.

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13 hours ago, Jerry Callo said:

Crockett was from Tennessee, Travis was from South Carolina, and Houston and Austin were born in Virginia.  I took OPs list as BAF who were important to Texas not born and raised here.  IIRC, Crockett was only here for three months and at the time here was technically Mexico.

Eisenhower  . . . born in Dennison but grew up on Wichita.  Or do I have it backwards?

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