This ‘Puerto Rican Rambo’ went on 200 combat missions in Vietnam

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This ‘Puerto Rican Rambo’ went on 200 combat missions in Vietnam
By Jon Simkins
Nov 25, 08:00 AM
Vietnamese and American troops conduct a combined patrol in the Mekong Delta on on April 8, 1967. (Horst Faas/AP)

Eloy Otero-Bruno and Crispina Barreto-Torres welcomed a son into the world on April 7, 1937, in the small municipality of Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, just west of the island’s capital of San Juan.

When they gave him a name inspired by his father’s admiration for America’s first president, the family certainly had no inkling that little Jorge would one day be something of an American icon in his own right, a status earned after becoming one of the most decorated soldiers of the Vietnam War.

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