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Handlebar

Campaign: ChelteNam

CHARACTER DOSSIER // SERVICE RECORD
United States Marine Corps WO Pilot
Fallen in Service
28 Sep 2025
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Record of service

Rank history, operations served, injuries, medals and commendations.

WO

Promoted on 31 May 2025

OperationParticipated in operation
1 Jun 2025
Operation: Op Sure Instruction - Sweeping patrol through the Chelt countryside. Air support via our Air Force friends, and a Seahorse on standby as required.
Medal: Vietnam Service Medal
Medal: Vietnam Campaign Medal
Medal: National Defense Service Medal
Commendation: WO Handlebar performed some most impressive landings on this operation, in particular placing his Kingbee into a space barely larger than it and under tree cover in the village of Kate, to provide lifesaving Medevac. Later, he located enemy machinegun positions by their tracer and talked the FAC on to deliver strikes against them. - by Admin
Commendation: Excellent medevac landing at the village south of Kate, than again at the temple. - by Admin
OperationParticipated in operation
6 Jun 2025
Operation: Op Chief Economics - Repeated iterations of helicopter insertions, sweeping patrols, then helicopter exfils. Technically a training mission for EGR, but no one told the Chelt that.
Commendation: Excellent landings all night. Some of them even in the right place. - by Admin
Commendation: Superb piloting allowed EGR to insert where ordered and extract even under sustained fire. Handlebar performed medivac in unfamiliar airframe saving the lives of several heavily wounded Marines. He also brought suppressive fire to bear on a Chelt counter attack allowing EGR to maintain a defensive perimeter with limited numbers until reinforced. - by Admin
OperationParticipated in operation
8 Jun 2025
Operation: Op Increasing Duffel - REDACTED for Col Lynch. Definitely not in Dorset, finding Chairman Moo's body doubles.
OperationParticipated in operation
15 Jun 2025
Operation: Op Turban Sink - Foot patrol through Chelt held hills to relieve Firebase Rockpile. Due to the heavy chelt presence, we never made it to Rockpile, but they did do a load of shelling the baddies for us.
Commendation: Kept me company in the rocks while the autocannon was shooting at us, and helped cover me to get me out of there. - by Admin
Commendation: Triggering an obvious trap by Chelt forces in order for EGR to target emergent forces and destroy at distance. - by Admin
OperationParticipated in operation
20 Jun 2025
Operation: Op Pumpkin Chasm - Continuation of Op TURBAN SINK, Endgame Red combat patrols through another three grid squares, taking out the regional Chelt HQ.
Commendation: Excellent work flexing his Marine muscles on the ground; keeping me safe from counterbattery fire and close assaults during an artillery duel with the Chelt regional HQ, finding cover for us both from their 107mm Type 63 MLRS while the 105mm regiment at FOB Rockpile did its work. Remained an aggresive combatant throughout several infantry assaults, ranging forward of the platoon to take out a dual machinegun nest armed with MG42, and eventually engaging the enemy with his issue ladle after expending all his .556 ammunition and light antitank weapon. - by Admin
OperationParticipated in operation
22 Jun 2025
Operation: Op First Omega - Continuation of Op TURBAN SINK
OperationParticipated in operation
27 Jun 2025
Operation: Op Doubt Storey - Let's trip over another punji then get mortared. EGR continue their sweep and clear to the North of OP Rockpile. Engaging enemy fixed positions, roving patrols and AAA sites.
Commendation: Absolute steller work just takeing action when we lost the Sarg towards the end there. Save our asses - by Admin
OperationParticipated in operation
29 Jun 2025
Operation: Op Mediocre Parallelogram - CSAR EGR with close support from a variety of air assets, perform several CSAR operations.
Commendation: Ace flying skills some absolutly fantastic landings - by Admin
Commendation: WO Handlebar is a virtuoso pilot, operating his H-34 Seahorse in close support, inserting and extracting landing teams from tight LZs under fire, locating and marking targets for CAS and serving as a significant force multiplier. - by Admin
Commendation: Risking life and airframe to extract HVTs and wounded marines whilst under heavy fire. Handlebar also brought EHT in at landing sites quickly and often within sight of the objective. Allowing for quick retrieval and medical support to downed aircrew. - by Admin
OperationParticipated in operation
4 Jul 2025
Operation: Op Practicing Sphinx - Check the collection of bridges all along the river for explosives, defuse them, and run away.
Commendation: Handlebar executed excellently, landing and helocasting along the rivers, allowing the squad the safest insertion into the squad objectives - by Admin
Commendation: Excellent utility piloting, putting his Seahorse (and later Huey) down into some tight landing spots, extracting me post-crash landing and definitely not showboating under any bridges. - by Admin
Commendation: I forgot to mention Handlebar's huge tactical utility in using his low and slow platform to spot enemy infantry concentrations and marking them with either smoke or frag grenades - this made placing rockets onto them from my Bronco possible, when I simply couldn't see infantry in cover at the speed I was moving. - by Admin
Commendation: As well as providing air cover and timely insertion and extraction often under fire and usually in confined improvised landing and pick up areas. Handle also performed aerial recon of the bridges, placing himself in danger, but in doing so providing needed intel and an alternative viewpoint that was often instrumental in finding IEDs on several bridges and allowing for their timely removal. Handlebar also worked tirelessly to provide logistical support to the team and also provided low-level intel to the groups on the ground of danger close enemy threats to their perimeter as they held back enemy forces for the EOD team to work. - by Admin
OperationParticipated in operation
6 Jul 2025
Operation: Op Unit Displacement - Continuing to sweep the bridges to clear them of mines. And we definitely did not blow up the last bridge. Nope.
Commendation: I would like to highlight WO Handlebar again for expertly controlling his aircraft while under fire, inserting via helocasting into the river despite major damage to his tail rotor, allowing the squad to proceed on mission before finding a safe LZ to attempt to land his aircraft in - by Admin
Commendation: Handlebar remains excellent at getting large helicopters safely into tight spots. Safely deposited ten marines after suffering a total loss of ATR from ground fire. - by Admin
OperationParticipated in operation
25 Jul 2025
Operation: Op Tweet Value - EGR infils into hostile territory using boats and mini-subs. Their mission is simple sneak past the defenses along the river and at Nalao, then, sneak into the fortified compound at Kouthi. In that compound was the Political Leader of the local Chelt Cong network, and he needed to be removed. Permanently.
Status: Mia
OperationParticipated in operation
28 Sep 2025
Operation: Op Lopsided Hectare - SAR Endgame Red performed 3 SAR missions supported by indigenous air assets. 1 downed A4, 1 downed A7 and 1 downed transport carrying a number of command staff officers.
Status: Dead