Alfred rascon biography

Specialist Fourth Class, U. S. Army Reconnaissance Platoon, Headquarters Company, 1^st Battalion (Airborne), ^rd Infantry, ^rd Airborne Brigade (Separate)

At the age of four, Alfred Rascon came to the United States from Chihuahua, Mexico with his parents.

He became a legal resident a few years later and would always think of himself as “an immigrant by birth, an American by choice.” Growing up near California’s Port Hueneme Naval Station during the Korean War, he was fascinated by the military; he made parachutes out of old sheets and staged imaginary combat jumps off the roof of his house.

At seventeen he enlisted in the army and became a medic in the ^rd Airborne Brigade.

In the spring of , Specialist Fourth Class Rascon’s reconnaissance platoon was part of a major operation in the jungles of Long Khanh Province.

His battalion had been running into resistance from small units of North Vietnamese troops for a few days and, more omino