This is hard to watch | The First Medal of Honor Ever Recorded | First Time Reaction! 

So many little details that amaze me every time too. 1) You've been fatally shot and are bleeding out. You wake up, your team is gone, you hear the enemy. Chaos around you. Like all the information we know now watching the video...Chapman didn't have. To be able to awake from that, bleeding to death and confused and disoriented, and act and do what he did? 2) the fact 6 members of the QRF were shot and WIA/KIA the moment they disembarked from the MH-47...That's a testament to just how well prepared and capable the enemy was. These weren't ragtag farmers with old AKs. In the early days of the war, we were going up against Chechens, Uzbek, and other foreign fighters who had decades of experience fighting the Russians and others. They were highly experienced, tough, and formidable opponents. Add the terrain, elevation, snow, etc. It's just amazing Chapman was able to hold his position as long as he did. Again, those poor men being shot the moment they came off the helicopter really testifies to how damned pinned down and deadly the enemies position/ability was. 3) He volunteered to go back to try and rescue the abandoned SEAL, Neil C. Roberts. Chapman didn't have to go at all. Like they had just returned from a mission, he was not expected to go back out. But he did to try and save, or at the least, recover the body of a fellow warrior and by all qccounts, a friend.

OMG! Even the word Heroic doesn't fit these actions. I can't imagine the stuff that drives these outstanding men. Breathtaking and heartbreaking.

There few things in here that needs context. 1) That was the spot they were (Seal Team) assigned post for the Operation Anaconda. Unfortunately, the spot is manned by the opposing forces. 2) Their initial helicopter leading to the spot is shot but managed to return to base. One of the Seal, Neil Roberts fell when the helicopter was impacted. 3) The Seal team took another helicopter to rescue Neil Roberts, unknowingly he's already slain. Chapman, volunteered to join the rescue team. 4) Seals ar especial operators of the Navy. Chapman is a combat controller, a special operator of the Air Force attached to a Special Ops team like Seals and Deltas. A Combat Controller is sepcialized in communicstion directing air support, artilleries, extractions, etc. They differ from other servicemen doing radios on regular units because they are special operators themselves and usually tasked to infiltrate deep enemy lines to confirm coordinates and giving directions. 5) As said, Seals are from the Navy, Combat Operators are from the Air Force. That led into politics. High Command of the Nvay tried to cover up this event and tried to block awarding Chapman the Medal of Honor because it will give light to the fact that the Navy Seal abandoned the Air Force Combat Controller. 6) The helicopter arriving in the late part of the video contains of Immediate Response Force, which are consists of Rangers, Pararescuemen, and another Combat Controller. Immediate Response Force is a joint force by the Army and Air Force. They are deployed on immediate notice. Pararescuemen, like the Combat Controller, are Special Operators of the Air Force that are much more advance than a regular medic and deployed much deeper into the enemy lines to rescue and/or provide medical assistance where no medic are supposed to be deployed.

There’s a lot of bravery here but I want to highlight someone specifically another Air Force man named Jason Cunningham he was a pararescueman new guy. Jason was on the helicopter that landed with the rangers and began treating wounded on the impact basically. He was shooting, moving wounded to safer positions, shooting some more to go grab another wounded guy take them to cover he did this nonstop even when he himself was wounded. He then realized he was hit and the ranger medic wanted to treat him he refused medical care and continued to fight and take care of his patients. At the end of the battle he was exhausted and bleeding out his eyes were fading and 30 minutes before extract he fell asleep never to wake up again. For his actions he was awarded the Air Force Cross. The team leader also received the Medal of Honor the entire SEAL team had Navy Crosses unknown amount of bronze stars with a V for Valor and Silver Stars with V for Valor and most men got Purple Hearts which indicates you are wounded. Let’s just say it was hard to not award every man a MoH bc they all fought like enraged animals on Roberts Ridge. God bless them all🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

It’s the equivalent of the German Bundeswehr Cross of Honor for Valor, British Victoria Cross. It’s the highest award in the US military you can get for bravery in combat.

Thanks for your reaction. I usually search for new reaction videos to Chapman's actions a few times a month. It's heartwarming to see folks not from the U.S. take time out of their day and lives to watch such a difficult video. Thanks especially for doing a little research on the MOH. Many reactions mean well, but go in pretty blind and don't appreciate 1) the incredibly high standards to be awarded the MOH 2) The little details of the actions. The original video has a part where the narrator says something like "this would earn hi. Hos second Medal of Honor". This really misleads people. The narrator meant to say Chapman'# actions on two separate times during the battle would have qualified him for the award, NOT that he was awarded TWO. The award is incredibly difficult to earn, and almost always is done so posthumously. For example, I believe only FOUR were awarded in the entirety of June 6th, 1944. That's among the hundreds of thousands of soldiers, sailors, airman, and marines that took part that day. Throughout my lifetime of consuming everything military related, I can tell you there are so many men who performed heroic, selfless deeds straight out of a Hollywood movie, whom never received the recognition they deserved. I think this applies heavily to countries like Germany, who in the face of defeat, has so many examples of men who fought honorably, valiantly, and performed incredible acts but for one reason or another (amongst the political and moral context of the war) are forgotten to history. It's something to keep in mind. All the men who died in combat doing things we'd assume were exaggerated etc. who will never be known. I think that's what makes this video such an important historical document. I often see comments on war movie clips of people dismissing small things as impossible or unlikely. There's no doubt movies can exaggerate, but at the same time...the more time you spend learning about the personal experiences in war, you start to realize life is stranger than fiction. There are giants among us. There are men and women who are capable of performing unimaginable feats of sacrifice, bravery, with a internal fortitude we think is reserved for fiction. They didn't do what they did expecting any attention, any recognition. They acted in the moment and did it for reasons we can only speculate, but which we can discern were for reasons beyond what any sane person would do. Anyways, thank you for the respect and informed manner I which you reacted. I watch the video so much and it always tears me up, yet is strangely motivating and inspiring.

Great reaction! If you're looking to mix up your reactions a little bit. May I suggest, "The Rescue of Jessica Buchanan." Thank you.

From what can be confirmed in this video he killed a minimum of 5 enemy soldiers. 2 in bunker 1, the Al Qaeda fighter laying next to the dead donkey, and the 2 that charged him shortly after he woke up. What a absolute Warrior & Hero! 💬🙏 🪦🕳️🧎‍♂️ 🏅⚰️ 🇺🇸