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MACVSOG - Historical and Technical Advisor.  Right picture above.
Brendon Lyons provided historical and technical advice to Sculptors Mark and Jenelle Byrd in the recreation of scenes from the Benavidez Medal of Honor incident.  He recruited volunteers to pose in the scenes and provided weapons and equipment to use as models for the sculptures.   Their work together led eventually to the creation of Valor Remembered Foundation.  From the left, Brendon Lyons, Eugene Pugh, and a Montagnard volunteer posing as an NVA soldier.   MABS photo.

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Alamo Silver Wings Airborne Association Military Ball.  Lyons assisted Jenelle Byrd with introduction of the Benavidez Memorial project to the Alamo Silver Wings Airborne Association.  An early clay model for the bust of Roy Benavidez is seen at the left.  MABS photo.

Signing the Articles of Incorporation.  Center picture above.
Brendon Lyons, right, signs the articles establishing the foundation on May 2, 2001, on the anniversary of  the Roy Benavidez earned his Medal of Honor.  MABS Photo.

Montagnard Thanksgiving Party.  Right picture above.
During the Vietnam War Brendon Lyons served on recon trams made up of American Special Forces members and Montagnards - Mountain tribesmen who were ethnically and culturally different from the Vietnamese.  With the fall of South Vietnam the Montagnards have been much persecuted by the communist government of Vietnam and many have moved to the United States.  Lyons has been an active leader in national efforts to help the Montagnards and their families to survive and prosper.  Many of the Montagnard families have settled in the Dallas/Ft Worth area now look to Brendon Lyons and the Special Forces Association chapter for assistance in adjusting to life in America.  Each year the chapter hosts Thanksgiving and Christmas parties for the Montagnard families, usually in Lyons's home.