and boots is misthat comes in further in the description of his citation. you know, and the continued comments throughout his hospitalization at brook medical center, where they take all the burn patients. he repeatedly woke up and said, with 72% of his body burned, are my guys okay? that was his only interesting. when you talk about sergeant first-class celiz, a member of the first of the 75th ranger, a storied unit. the things he did to protect a helicopters taking away his fellow wounded soldiers, and he stays next to it to ensure the pilot wasn t shot, phenomenal. and plumlee basically diving into an attack where all the enemy were wearing suicide vests. you know, the surgeon, the
attention to orders. the president of the united states of america, thor iced by act of congress march 3rd, 1863, has awarded the medal of honor sergeant first-class celis for conspicuous gallantry above and beyond the call of duty. he distinguished himself by spinously above and beyond the call of duty while engaged with the enemy. as a leader of special purpose comprised the partner forces, the 75th ranger he led an operation to clear the area of enemy forces, thereby disrupt future attacks, and allied forces. shortly after his team reached the final objectives a large enemy force attacked, preventing them from maneuvering to
it s morning there. dark there. and that was our goal. and on the d-day jump. landed standing up for the most part. and then went down to my knees and bounced aun couple of times because i had so much equipment. and i had a difficult time getting out of that equipment. amazing. and also today, the 75th ranger recommending men re-enacted the scalingg of the cliff here in normandy in a tribute to those who had come before them. some of the boys now in their 90s came back here to witness the tribute. it was emotional and sometimes very painful for them. it brings back a few bad memories because the boys that gotbo killed, you know? they came up here and they knew they had a chance to be killed.h and some of them got killed. well, it s the last hurrah. i would be over 100 if we had a
days. a physical test, swimming, navigation, six chinups, 49 push-ups, 59 sit-ups, a five-mile run in under 40 minutes and a 12-mile march carrying 35 pounds through the hills in under three hours. in one day. in one day. just in case you re keeping up there, it all has to be done in one day. three big phases. the eight women who pass the initial first part right, all of them ended up failing the second part of the first phase, but they got a redo. 57% don t finish the whole first phase. three women passed it and one of those got stuck in the mountain phase. we don t know her status. she could feasibly graduate later. two made it out. but those two aren t able to apply to the 75th ranger that is a special ops force that they re still not letting women try out
bangs. john rain a retired major general was a captain with the 5th ranger infantry battalion that landed on omaha beach. smoke all over the bluffs as we came in. plus there was smoke from the boats that had been hit by artillery. the maximum range of any of the guns in the omaha area or the french 155 millimeter gps. they had a range of about 10 miles. they could be pretty far in and still reach the beach. four hours after the invasion began at 6:30 in the morning on june 6th #th there were american soldiers on top of those bluffs at omaha beach. but hitler was convinced this was not the real invasion. a top secret ally plan known as operation fortitude tricked him into a ghost army. they recognized after the invasion took place that george patton was not there in normandy and assumed that he was