Operation Weak Fellow

Campaign: ChelteNam · Sun 15 Sep 2024

OPERATION RECORD // AFTER ACTION REPORT

Operation Summary

Operation to locate and destroy enemy valley base in mountains NW of Ninh Tho

Medals

Bronze Star Medal
Reason: POSTHUMOUSLY AWARDED Bronze Star Medal (BSM) for heroic actions in recovering friendly casualties from areas heavily suppressed by enemy AAA positions at great risk to her own life, and then later risking immolation by forest fire and receiving third degree burns while recovering further casualties, saving them from a hideous death by burning during the valley base assaults of Operation Weak Fellow. (by Admin)
Bronze Star Medal
Reason: AWARDED Star to his Bronze Star Medal with Combat V (BSM) for deliberately exposing himself to sustained enemy fire in order to lay down a blocking wall of HE grenades when the platoon position was about to be overrun, receiving multiple serious wounds in doing so but preventing the enemy envelopment and allowing the platoon to recover wounded and push through the counterattack in the intense battle to destroy an enemy valley base NW of Ninh Tho during Operation Weak Fellow. (by Admin)
Mentioned in Despatches
Reason: AWARDED Mention in Dispatches (MID) for heroically detonating enemy captured air to ground munitions by ordering point blank bazooka fire, cleverly and tactically creating an immense forest fire which denied the munitions to the enemy and covered his team's withdrawal from the AO while also encouraging swift movement and operational tempo towards the LZ during Operation Weak Fellow. (by Admin)
Gallantry Cross with Bronze Star
Reason: AWARDED South Cheltnamese Gallantry Cross with Bronze Star (GCB) for actions in support of forest revitalisation and regrowth during Operation Weak Fellow. (by Admin)
Bronze Star Medal
Reason: POSTHUMOUSLY AWARDED Star to their Bronze Star Medal (BSM) for leading a scratch built breaching team into an enemy held rock bunker to establish a secure location in the middle of an ongoing and chaotic base assault, then effecting a textbook withdrawal from the burning compound after achieving the operational objectives in the face of heavy enemy defences during Operation Weak Fellow. (by Admin)

Commendations

Recognised the need to destroy enemy captured air to ground munitions within the tunnel complex and ordered them destroyed by point blank bazooka fire, thus denying the munitions to the enemy and causing a chain reaction of forest fires that covered his teams withdrawal from the AO and gutted the entire enemy command facility.
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Led a scratch breaching team into an enemy held rock bunker and whilst sustaining numerous wounds kept the clearing operation on target and, once the complex was cleared, effected a textbook withdrawal from the burning, exploding compound.
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As EI enveloped EGR, Avalanche exposed themselves to enemy fire to get into a position to place a blocking wall of HE grenades to stop them completing their envelopment and allowing EGR to recover their wounded and push through the enemy counter attack.
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Exposed herself to 3rd degree burns to save several squad mates that were wounded in the forest fire.
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Recovered several wounded EGR personnel that had been cut off and were underfire from enemy AAA positions. Jump used smoke to cover her retrieval of several of these casualties allowing medical treatment to be administered and for their lives to be saved.
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Quick thinking during final extraction to call in ground support, thereby allowing us to all extract with the secured VIPs.
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Participants