SEAL Rookies Asked Old Vet About Her Call Sign While Laughing - Until 'Green Lady' Made Them Silent

Описание: When BUD/S trainee Petty Officer Candidate Miller and his buddies find elderly Dr. Evelyn Reed tending roses at Coronado training facility, they mock her as a confused civilian in their "consecrated ground," demanding to see her faded green tattoo and laughing while asking her call sign - suggesting "Petunia Predator" or "Rose Bush Rambo." Master Chief Thompson arrives in fury and reveals the tattoo is the MACV-SOG insignia from Vietnam's deadliest clandestine unit. Dr. Reed was a volunteer surgeon with Forward Operating Bases who went on suicidal "Bright Light" rescue missions unarmed into hot LZs. Her call sign "Green Lady" came from being the phantom who'd slip into landing zones under fire that pilots refused to enter. When Spike Team Dakota was ambushed by a battalion in Laos with all wounded, she rappelled 70 feet through jungle canopy alone into the firefight, performed a thoracotomy with a K-Bar knife, packed a femoral artery with her own t-shirt, and kept all men alive for six hours until extraction - every member of Dakota survived because of her. The base commander arrives and salutes her, ready to wash out the trainees. Instead, Dr. Reed requests they work her memorial garden one hour daily for the rest of BUD/S - each plant honors a fallen SOG operator she knew. She'll tell their stories while the trainees pull weeds, teaching them what it truly costs to wear the Trident. Miller stays behind in tears, and she hands him a trowel to begin learning about Corpsman Danny who saved her life in the Ashau Valley.

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