Major James Capers led a four day mission in Vietnam that should have killed him. His unit was inserted, took heavy contact, and fought through the night with everything they had. He was wounded, his dog was killed, and when the helicopter finally came in to pull them out, he told the crew to take his men and leave him behind. President Trump signed a bill awarding him the Medal of Honor for what he did on that trail, outnumbered and outgunned, refusing to abandon a single Marine no matter the cost. In this episode, Major Capers sits down to walk through the mission, the decisions made under fire, and what it actually means to bring every man home when everything around you is falling apart.
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CHAPTERS
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:11 - Ad: Team Dog Food
00:01:40 - Meet Major Capers
00:02:37 - Favorite Quote
00:03:37 - Bishopville Childhood
00:12:52 - Baltimore Life
00:16:45 - World War II Memories
00:19:14 - Pearl Harbor & D-Day
00:21:36 - Hiroshima Decision
00:23:56 - Joining Marines
00:24:05 - Ad: Particle Face Cream
00:25:09 - Ad: BetterHelp
00:26:32 - Meeting His Wife
00:29:01 - Lebanon 1956
00:31:32 - Battlefield Commission
00:35:00 - Lost Wife & Son
00:36:45 - Flying to California
00:38:28 - PTSD & Hospital
00:45:47 - Recon Origins
00:57:44 - Racial Barriers
01:00:03 - Combat Swim School
01:01:58 - Vietnam Arrival
01:02:11 - Shark Mission
01:04:00 - POW Rescue Mission
01:07:22 - Ad: American Financing
01:08:35 - Ad: Beam Dream Powder
01:10:14 - Battle of Phu Loc
01:13:35 - King the War Dog
01:15:25 - Leaving Men Behind
01:19:44 - Battle of Khe Sanh
01:26:28 - Vietnam Timeline
01:27:48 - Water Missions
01:30:41 - 550 Parachute Jumps
01:32:16 - Negritos Philippines
01:36:10 - Pentagon Mission
01:36:56 - Black September Nuke
01:38:22 - Cuba Operations
01:40:13 - Jimmy Carter Meeting
01:41:28 - Medal of Honor Race
01:42:01 - Post-Vietnam Career
01:42:22 - Hamburg Assassination
01:43:48 - Hawaii & Nixon
01:46:03 - Threats Against Family
01:52:49 - Back to School
01:53:36 - Retirement Decision
01:58:57 - Post-Military Business
02:01:35 - Any Regrets?
02:02:36 - Faith Through the Storm
02:05:13 - God in Vietnam
02:09:56 - Declared Dead
02:12:17 - Closing Thoughts
02:15:25 - Deserving the Medal
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