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won two Silver Stars for two separate displays of heroism in a single week. In the first incident, a camouflaged
enemy machine gun nest ambushed Rodriguez’s unit while it was trying to secure Hill 476. Rodriguez ordered one of his squads to fix bayonets and led a raucous charge on the enemy po- sition. The enemy soldiers hastily fled, taking their machine guns but leaving behind their ammunition and rations. A week later, a mortar barrage hit
Rodriguez’s company as it was trying to take Hill 398, near Choksong-myon. When the lead platoon became pinned down, Rodriguez led his men in an as- sault that resulted in an enemy rout. “Most people who receive decora-
tions say, ‘I didn’t do nothing — I was soldiering,’ ” Rodriguez told a report- er with the American Forces Press Service in 1999. “I had to do what I had to do. You have to reach your ob- jective, and if you don’t kill them, they kill you. I’m alive because I shot first.” Not all Borinqueneer missions
were so successful. In September 1952, members were defending a hill known as Outpost Kelly when they were overrun by Chinese forces and driven off twice by enemy artillery, resulting in numerous casualties. Outpost Kelly remained in enemy hands at the end of the month. As a result of that loss, Army Col. Chester B. DeGavre re- placed regimental commander Army Col. Juan Cesar Cordero-Davila, who was viewed as an ineffective leader. DeGavre worked to strengthen the
65th, but many of his actions — includ- ing ordering members of the regiment to shave their signature mustaches until “they gave proof of their man- hood” — reduced morale. This, com- bined with the language barrier (most of the Borinqueneers spoke only Span- ish), resulted in insubordination in two of the regiment’s three battalions. In October 1952, Company G of the 65th lost [CONTINUES ON PAGE 111]
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