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Jack Jacobs entered the US Army in 1966 as a Second Lieutenant through the ROTC program.
Jack Howard Jacobs is a retired colonel in the United States Army and a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions during the Vietnam War. He serves as a military analyst for NBC News and MSNBC and previously worked as an investment manager.

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Colonel Jack Jacobs
(USA, Retired, Rutgers University 1969)
Medal of Honor Recipient; USMA Adjunct Professor; Military/Political Analyst, MSNBC

Colonel Jack Jacobs is a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor for actions in Vietnam. He graduated from Rutgers with Bachelors and Masters degrees in International Relations. Colonel Jacobs is currently an MSNBC military and political correspondent. He is also a member of the faculty at West Point. Jacobs taught International Relations and comparative politics for 3 years, and he was a member of the faculty of the National War College in Washington, DC. He is a founder and was Chief Operating Officer of Auto Finance Group Inc, one of the firms to pioneer the securitization of debt instruments; the firm was subsequently sold to Key Bank. He was a Managing Director of Bankers Trust, where he ran Foreign Exchange options worldwide and was a partner in the institutional hedge fund business.

In October 2008, the Penguin Group published Colonel Jacobs' memoir, If Not Now, When?: Duty and Sacrifice In America's Time of Ne

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Jack H. Jacobs

Jack Howard Jacobs was a Jewish American soldier who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for valor during the Vietnam War.

Jacobs (born August 2, 1945) was born in Brooklyn to a Jewish family of Greek, Polish and Romanian descent. As a child he moved with his family to New Jersey and later graduated from Rutgers University with both a bachelor's and master's degree. A member of Rutgers' ROTC program, Jacobs entered military service in the U.S. Army as a second lieutenant in 1966.

In his first deployment to Vietnam, Jacobs served with Military Assistance Command in a region of the Mekong Delta. On March 9, 1968, his battalion came under intense fire from an entrenched Viet Cong force. As Jacobs called in air support, his company commander was disabled and the unit became disorganized from heavy casualties. Although wounded himself, Jacobs took command of the company and ordered a withdrawal and the establishment of a more secure, defensive line. Despite impaired vision caused by his injuries, Jacobs repeatedly ran across open rice paddies th

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Valor and Sacrifice Under Enemy Fire: The Story of Captain Jack Jacobs

Recipient: Jack Howard Jacobs

Branch: U.S. Army

Combat: Vietnam War

Jack Howard Jacobs was born on August 2, 1945, in Brooklyn, New York. The son of second-generation Eastern European immigrants, he grew up with a full appreciation of their Jewish culture and the importance of education. As a child, he moved with his family to Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, a nearby suburb, where he finished high school and enrolled in Rutgers University under the ROTC program.

Jacobs proved to be a dedicated and ambitious student, earning both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts degree before graduating in 1966. He was initially commissioned to join the U.S. Army as a second lieutenant and wanted to deploy to Vietnam with his unit, the 82nd Airborne. Instead, he was assigned only as an advisor. When Jacobs protested, insisting he wanted to be an infantry soldier, he was told that his education made him “uniquely qualified” to advise infantry units in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam.

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