During these attacks, he left the safety of his foxhole in order to observe movements of the enemy and to direct artillery fire. Refusing evacuation, he continued to direct his company through four more counterattacks by a numerically superior force who advanced to within grenade range before being driven back. At 2200 hours on 25 November 1950, while directing the defense of his position against a heavy counterattack, he was wounded in the right shoulder.
After capturing the objective, he directed preparation of defensive positions against an expected enemy counterattack. During this operation he deliberately exposed himself to enemy machine-gun fire to enable his men to spot locations of the machine guns.
“First Lieutenant Puckett led his company across eight hundred yards of open terrain under heavy enemy small-arms fire and captured the company's objective.
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