Ralph Puckett Jr., a 94-year-old Army veteran, received the Medal of Honor from President Joe Biden Friday afternoon for his heroism on a isolated hill in Korea more than seventy years ago, CNN reports.

“Why all the fuss? Can’t they just mail it to me?” Puckett reportedly said upon being told he was receiving the nation’s highest military honor for his actions on Hill 205 in November 1950, when he and a group of 51 Americans and nine South Koreans faced waves of hundreds of Chinese troops.

A young lieutenant with the US Army Rangers, Puckett was wounded at least six times as he led the troops in repelling attacks from the surrounding Chinese in a battle to hold a strategic position overlooking the Chongchon River.  Before the last wave, Puckett ordered his surviving troops to retreat downhill.

He lay in a foxhole, too wounded to move, as Chinese forces moved up the hill bayoneting corpses or mortally wounded American troops.  As the enemy were within 15 yards of his location, two members of his command returned for him, fighting off enemy troops.

Although Puckett ordered them to leave him behind because he was too badly wounded, one picked him up and carried him part way down the far side of the hill as the other provided covering fire.  The two soldiers then dragged him by his wrists to the cover of three tanks.  “Not very ceremonially, but we made it,” Puckett said when recounting the battle for a historical archive.

Puckett was one of the first class of inductees into the US Ranger Hall of Fame in