Colonel Gary 'Mike' Rose, U.S. Army (Retired), poses at a Special Forces Charitable Trust reception on 23 October 2017, wearing the Medal of Honor he received earlier that day. Rose was recognized nearly 47 years after the fact for his extraordinary heroism as a Special Forces medic during Operation Tailwind, a covert MACV-SOG operation into Laos in September 1970, where he repeatedly risked his life to treat and evacuate wounded comrades under intense enemy fire. Project: 219447