The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Private First Class Rodney J. Green (MCSN: 1198315), United States Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy of the United Nations while serving as a Machine Gun Squad Leader of Company E, Second Battalion, First Marines, FIRST Marine Division (Reinforced), in action against enemy aggressor forces in the Republic of Korea on the night of 4 – 5 September 1952. When his squad was subjected to an intense hostile mortar and artillery barrage followed by an infantry attack by a numerically superior enemy force while defending a hill sector of the main line of resistance, Private First Class Green, although painfully wounded in the hand, delivered effective counterfire on the attackers with his machine gun. Observing several wounded men in front of his position, he assigned his weapon to the assistant gunner and moved forward through hostile fire to render aid to the wounded. Returning to his position and finding two other machine-gun positions overrun by the enemy, he picked up the light machine gun and fired it with deadly accuracy to retake both positions single-handedly. After reorganizing the remaining men, he held the positions by instructing a rifleman in the firing of one of the machine guns while he manned the other, despite a second wound from a hostile mortar fragment. Wounded for a third time while replenishing the exhausted supply of ammunition, he refused the use of a stretcher, walked to the evacuation point for medical aid and returned to his post on the flank to check his men and positions before allowing himself to be evacuated. By his outstanding courage, indomitable fighting spirit and resolute determination, Private First Class Green served to inspire all who observed him and upheld the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.