American Valor Quarterly Issue 10 - Summer 2013 | Page 13

Joe Ronnie Hooper Award
For distinguished service in the United States military during the Vietnam War

Major General James E. Livingston
United States Marine Corps (Ret)
May 2, 1968. The village of Dai Do, Republic of Vietnam.
The previous evening, major elements of the North Vietnamese 320th regiment seized the village, cutting off an
isolated Marine company from the remainder of its battalion. The Marines were massively outnumbere