As the oldest of 17 children, Ronald Rosser always looked out for his brothers and sisters. He joined the Army in 1946 and served for 3 years. In 1951, he reenlisted because his kid brother was killed early in the Korean conflict and he was bent on revenge.
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On January 12, 1952, Corporal Rosser was a forward observer with the 38th Inf. and directing mortar fire while his company assaulted a hill held by a Chinese battalion near the town of Ponggilli. By the time they reached a the crest of the hill, only 35 of the 170 were alive.
With the situation getting worse, and the CO badly wounded, Rosser decided to charge the hill himself.
Armed only with a carbine and a grenade, he plowed on through the snow, oblivious to the heavy fire all around him. Reaching a bunker in which 9 Communist soldiers were crouching, he shot one of them in the face, then whirled and killed another one who had a machine gun trained on him. He then jumped into the trench and killed 5 more of the enemy. When two escaped to another bunker, Rosser followed them and threw his grenade inside; he shot both as they emerged from the explosion.
Rosser moved on to another trench line and killed 5 more Chinese soldiers. His ammo finally exhausted, he went back down the hill to resupply himself by stripping rifle magazines and grenades off dead GIs, then climbed the hill again. He kept killing more of the enemy and when his ammunition was gone again, he repeated his resupply trip down the hill, then returned a third time to continue his one-man battle.
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After more than an hour of fighting, he personally had killed more than 20 Chinese with grenades and another 28 with rifle fire.
When Rosser returned to the States, he announced to his mother that he had avenged his brother's death. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions soon after.
In 1968, he lost another brother, this time in Vietnam. When he requested assignment to the combat zone to even his personal score once again, he was refused. "If something happened to you, even by accident, it would be hard to explain," his commanding officer told him. Rosser retired from the Army soon after. #hardcore #avengeme #stayzero