Retired Captain Gary Michael 'Mike' Rose, U.S. Army Special Forces medic, poses with family and a senior military officer following his Medal of Honor recognition in October 2017. Rose received the nation's highest military honor for his extraordinary heroism as a medic during Operation Tailwind, a covert MACV-SOG cross-border operation into Laos in September 1970, where he treated and evacuated wounded teammates while sustaining his own injuries under intense enemy fire. Project: 219444