The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918 (amended by act of July 25, 1963), takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Captain (Infantry) Craig Rothwell Chamberlain (ASN: 0-92637), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations involving conflict with an armed hostile force in the Republic of Vietnam, while serving with Detachment A-110, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1st Special Forces. Captain Chamberlain distinguished himself by exceptionally valorous actions on 8 May 1967. Captain Chamberlain distinguished himself by exceptionally valorous actions while serving as Special Forces advisor to Vietnamese forces during a North Vietnamese attack on Camp Con Thien. At 1230 hours, a force of two enemy battalions assaulted the camp’s defenses from two sides with artillery fire and ground attacks. Despite mortar and rocket fire falling around him, Captain Chamberlain directed the manning of key positions of automatic weapons and guided the American and Vietnamese commanders. Although he was wounded in a direct rocket hit on the command bunkers, he remained at his radio in an exposed position from which he could survey the battle’s development. The insurgents had breached the outer perimeters and were rushing demolition teams and flame throwers toward the storage and equipment areas. Captain Chamberlain’s bunker was engulfed in flames by a flame thrower, but he put out the flames on his clothes with his hands and withdrew to another area to organize Seabees in the defensive trenches. He led a counterattack through exploding mortars and rockets and the burning areas, stopping the human wave attacks of the enemy. Positioning himself in a forward position, Captain Chamberlain fired grenades which so effectively pinned down the insurgent masses that, at dawn, many were trapped and unable to withdraw from the shell craters in which they had taken cover during the night. Captain Chamberlain’s courageous fighting prevented the North Vietnamese from cutting the camp in two and inflicted heavy losses upon them. Captain Chamberlain’s extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the United States Army.