Belardo served his country with honor and distinction in Vietnam with the most heavily decorated artillery unit in the history of the U.S. Army. He and his combat buddies didn't plan on being heroes; their hand-to-hand fighting was thrust upon them by a savage enemy intent upon overrunning their positions at any cost. These brave men survived the onslaught of Tet 1968, and later the Siege of Khe Sahn.