As a result of his service and injuries in the conflict, Kovic was awarded the Bronze Star with Combat "V" for heroism in battle and the Purple Heart. Kovic then spent a week in an intensive care ward in Da Nang. The first Marine that tried to save him was shot through the heart and killed, before a second Marine carried Kovic to safety through heavy enemy fire. Deserted by most of his unit, he was shot first in the right foot, which tore out the back of his heel, then again through the right shoulder, suffering a collapsed lung and a spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed from the chest down. On January 20, 1968, while leading a reconnaissance force of battalion scouts from the 1st Amtrac Battalion just north of the Cửa Việt River in the vicinity of the village of Mỹ Lộc, in the Demilitarized Zone, Kovic's squad came into contact with the NVA 803rd Regiment and elements of a Viet Cong battalion that was besieging the village he was shot by NVA soldiers while leading his rifle squad across an open area, attempting to aid the South Vietnamese Popular Force unit in the village. Several months later, he volunteered to return to Vietnam for a second tour of duty. He was subsequently assigned to the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing at Cherry Point, North Carolina. After a 13-month tour of duty, he returned home on January 15, 1967.
In June 1966, he was transferred to Bravo Company, Second Platoon, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division where he participated in 22 long range reconnaissance patrols in enemy territory and was awarded the Navy Commendation Medal with Combat V for valor. Kovic volunteered to serve in Vietnam, and was sent to South Vietnam in December 1965 as a member of H&S Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division. She was of Irish ancestry, and a housewife.
He met Lamb during the Second World War when she was serving in the United States Navy to which she enlisted not long after the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. Kovic was born in Ladysmith, Wisconsin, the second eldest of the six children of Patricia Ann Lamb (Janu– June 30, 2006) and Eli Thomas Kovic (Aug– May 1, 1999). JSTOR ( July 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification.
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