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Article: SPECIAL FORCES MIA AWARDED SILVER STAR
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- Special Warfare
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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CopyrightCopyright John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School Jul/Aug 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The search that began more than 41 years ago to find a Special Forces sergeant missing in the jungles of Vietnam led to the presentation of his Silver Star Medal to his mother April 19.
Staff Sergeant Roger Hallberg was the point man March 24,1967, on a mission deep behind enemy lines, when a force estimated to be in the hundreds ambushed him and the men of SF Detachment A-302. Hallberg, who led a counterattack while the main element pulled back, was never heard from again, but his actions that day saved the lives of other Americans and the indigenous force that he was working with. He was later listed as missing in action.
Major General Thomas R. Csrnko, commander of the U.S. Army Special ...