10 Bunkers. 2 Grenades. He Wouldn't Stop. | The James Bondsteel Story

In the middle of a four-hour firefight in the jungle of An Loc Province, South Vietnam, a wounded staff sergeant waved off his own medic and walked toward another bunker. By the time the fighting stopped, James Bondsteel had personally destroyed ten enemy bunkers, survived two grenade blasts, and saved soldiers in two different platoons — all in one afternoon. This is the story of Staff Sergeant James Leroy Bondsteel, whose actions on May 24th, 1969, near the village of Lang Sau earned him the Medal of Honor — presented in October 1973, the last one Richard Nixon ever gave in person before Watergate ended his presidency. Chapter timestamps: 0:00 — INTRODUCTION 2:07 — THE KID FROM JONESVILLE 6:49 — AN LOC PROVINCE 9:44 — FOUR BUNKERS 11:54 — TWO HUNDRED METERS 14:22 — THE GRENADE 17:54 — FOUR HOURS 19:58 — THE LAST MEDAL NIXON EVER GAVE 21:22 — STILL SHOWING UP 22:40 — CLOSING Sources consulted: Congressional Medal of Honor Society (cmohs.org), Hall of Valor / Military Times (valor.militarytimes.com), Department of the Army General Orders No. 38 (1973), Wikipedia's sourced biographical entry for James Leroy Bondsteel, and the Jackson County Veterans Memorial record (Clio).