Roy Benavidez, a Green Beret who had returned to the war after being grievously injured during his first tour of duty in 1965, heard the distress call and climbed onboard the next helicopter bound for the combat zone. They soon found themselves surrounded by enemy, low on ammunition, and using the bodies of their dead comrades as cover. Little did they know they had infiltrated a section of jungle that concealed numerous enemy bases. "In May 1968, a 12-man US Special Forces team entered the jungles of Cambodia on a covert mission to uncover evidence that communists were using the area as a major conduit for supplying the North Vietnamese Army.
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