The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918 (amended by an act of July 25, 1963), takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Captain (Infantry) Edward Francis Roby (ASN: OF-101688), United States Army, for gallantry in action while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an armed hostile force in the Republic of Vietnam. On 4 February 1968, Captain Roby was serving as Commanding Officer of Company C, 2d Battalion (Mechanized), 2d Infantry Regiment, 3d Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, on a highway securing operation along Highway 13. In the afternoon ours he received an urgent call to provide a mounted relief force to aid a friendly unit which was heavily engaged with a North Vietnamese regiment on Highway 301 in Binh Duong Province. Captain Roby quickly organized his company, and under heavy sniper fire, led them down the unsecured highway to the area of contact. Upon arrival at the embattled area, he remained in an exposed position atop his command armored personnel carrier and placed his tracked vehicles along the enemy’s flank to place suppressive fire upon the enemy emplacements. Under cover of this protection, Captain Roby deployed several of his armored personnel carriers to pick up casualties from exposed positions throughout the area and reorganized the defense to repulse the attacking North Vietnamese. Under continuous small arms and automatic weapons fire, he coolly and professionally led his men in the extraction of the hard pressed troops and then directed his company’s devastating fire to rapidly and decisively defeat the insurgent force. The extraordinary courage and exemplary leadership of Captain Roby during the hazardous situation were directly responsible for saving numerous American lives and inflicting heavy casualties upon the enemy. Captain Roby’s unquestionable valor in close combat against numerically superior hostile forces is in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, the 1st Infantry Division, and the United States Army.