 Vargas's battalion commander arrived on the scene and ordered a renewed assault on the village.He carried to safety a Marine whose arm had been severed, and when the soldier pleaded for his arm, Vargas went back and found it.When the battalion commander, fighting like any other rifleman, was shot in the back three times, Vargas dragged him a hundred yards to an evacuation point, firing at the enemy as he went with an AK-47 he had picked up on the battlefield.