Intel Summary: Legendary Army Ranger Col. Ralph Puckett Receives Medal of Honor

President Joe Biden presented Col. Ralph Puckett the Medal of Honor in a ceremony at the White House Friday afternoon after a years-long campaign by supporters who believed the Ranger icon was due the nation’s most prestigious military distinction.

“Today we are hosting a true American hero and awarding an honor that is long overdue,” Biden said. “More than 70 years overdue […] I’m incredibly proud to give Col. Ralph Puckett’s acts of valor the full recognition they have always deserved.”

Puckett, now 94, earned the Medal of Honor for his service in Korea in November 1950, when he led a desperate defense of a position dubbed Hill 205. His 51-man Ranger unit faced a much larger force of Chinese soldiers during a daytime attack. As mortar, machine gun, and small arms fire hailed down on the 8th Ranger Company, Puckett emerged from his position and intentionally ran across an open area three times to draw enemy fire and allow his fellow Rangers to locate and destroy the Chinese soldiers’ positions and seize Hill 205.

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