- SURNAME
Rodger
- FORENAME
Ronald Jack
- UNIT
U.S.N. Seal Team 2
- RANK
Boatswains Mate First Class
- NUMBER
6862457
- AWARD
Silver Star
- PLACE
South Vietnam 1970
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Detroit, Michigan
CITATION:
Silver Star : The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Boatswain's Mate First Class Ronald Jack Rodger (NSN: 6862457), United States Navy, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action as a member of Sea-Air-Land Team TWO (SEAL-2), while serving with friendly forces engaged in armed conflict with the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong Communist aggressors in the Republic of Vietnam on 17 - 18 March 1970. While attached to SEAL Team TWO, Detachment ALFA, and operating out of Coastal Group THIRTY-SIX, Long Phu District, Ba Xuyen Province, Republic of Vietnam, Petty Officer Rodger was the senior U.S. Navy SEAL Advisor to eight Vietnamese SEALs on a night combat operation on Dung Island, a well established Viet Cong stronghold and sanctuary. He planned and coordinated the operation, acted as point man for the patrol and led his unit to the objective. After security was established and the strike element entered the hootch, a fire fight from point-blank range ensured wherein a Vietnamese SEAL was seriously wounded in action. Petty Officer Rodger personally carried the wounded man to a nearby canal and while under intense automatic weapons fire, placed him in a sampan, paddled to the main river to a support boat and aided in placing the wounded man on the boat. While again under enemy fire, he proceeded back and successfully rescued the remainder of his men. Petty Officer Rodger's heroic actions in the face of enemy fire, courage, decisive actions, professional performance and devotion to duty were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.
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