In his remarks to the audience, DeNisio spoke briefly about his experience as a young captain assigned to the 377th Security Police Squadron, 900 members within its ranks, when the Tet Offensive was launched.ĭuring the Lunar New Year, or Tet holiday, in late January 1968 - Vietnam's most important holiday - North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces (rebel forces sponsored by North Vietnam) launched a series of coordinated, surprise attacks against a number of targets, cities, towns, and hamlets in South Vietnam. “I realize that today is not only the 50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, but in a real sense, it is a birthday for a lot of us who were there at Tet, our 50th birthday,” DeNisio said.

Bernie DeNisio, a Silver Star recipient of the Tet Offensive and the ceremony’s guest speaker, who accepted it on behalf of the museum.ĭeNisio, who spent his 21-year military career as a security police, told his fellow Vietnam veterans in the audience who saw action when the Tet Offensive began, the 50th anniversary was also a birthday for them as well given the fact they are alive and survived the enemy assault against them. Spacy, presented the Battle Cross to retired Col. Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center commander, Maj. The Security Forces Academy, which worked in conjunction with the Security Forces Museum Foundation the past 10 months to organize this special event, commemorated the day with a donation of the Security Forces Battle Cross to the museum.

Vietnam veterans came from various parts of the country to pay homage to their fellow comrades who fought in the fiercest battle of the Vietnam War 50 years ago, the Tet Offensive. JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas - Members of the Vietnam Security Police Association, along with close family, gathered outside the Security Forces Museum at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland on a breezy day for a ceremony to honor and remember the service members who fought and died on the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Tet Offensive, Jan.

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