WASHINGTON D.C. (Valley News Live) – Continuing our coverage of the Veterans Honor Flight of ND/MN.
There are quite a few combat veterans on this honor flight. All have heroic stories of their time overseas.
One of them, Gary Benjamin, Sr., joined the Army in 1968. He spent time in Berlin, Germany before he was sent to Vietnam. There, he worked with a sniper outfit.
He then went on to sniper school. There, he says, they would shoot some targets that were 1,200 meters away.
“They wanted me to re-enlist and be an instructor at a sniper school, but I decided they’d probably send me back to…
