Staff Sergeant Lloyd F. Mousseau was the assistant team leader or "One-One" of Leroy Wright's twelve-man recon team.  The team became surrounded by a force of hundreds of North Vietnamese Army soldiers on a covert mission in Cambodia on May 2, 1968.  A fierce battle lasting several hours ensued.  Mousseau  was critically wounded early in the action but continued to fight despite a massive head wound.  His actions during critical moments in the battle were instrumental in the survival of the team.  You may read of his heroic and skillful actions on that day by reading any of the three published biographies of Roy Benavidez. (See the bibliography on Six Hours In Hell).

Lloyd "Frenchy" Mousseau died beside MSgt. Roy Benavidez on the floor of a medevac helicopter just minutes from the hospital in Saigon.  Benavidez recalled Mousseau's last minutes in his book The Three Wars of Roy Benavidez;

"Minutes away from the doctors in Saigon, I felt his fingers dig into my palm, his arm twitching and jumping as if an electric current was pouring through his body into mine.  I.....saw his eye widen, staring full into my face, and pain and fear radiating from him like a heat wave.  He blinked once, the grip loosened, and his face softened as his eyelid drooped.  It was like a brightly lit candle guttering and going out."

Lloyd Mousseau was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his part is this action.   He had been awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and other awards for  valor in previous combat actions.  In the year 2002 the United States Army present a replacement set of all of his decorations, badges, and unit patches to his daughter Kathy, who was three years old when he died and never knew the details valor. Kathy Mousseau Meuller
 

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