Retired U.S. Army Special Forces Captain Gary 'Mike' Rose, wearing the Medal of Honor, greets a guest at a reception held in his honor. Rose received the nation's highest military decoration on October 23, 2017, for his extraordinary heroism as a Special Forces medic during Operation Tailwind, a covert 1970 MACV-SOG cross-border raid into Laos in which he treated dozens of wounded comrades under sustained enemy fire, refusing to seek treatment for his own injuries until his men were safe. Project: 219447