Service Jacket
National Defense Service Medal
Vietnam Service Medal
Vietnam Campaign Medal
Joined campaign as 1Lt.
Purple Heart
Gallantry Cross with Gold Star: For actions saving senior Somerset officers, soldiers and dependents during Operation Half Violence.
OPERATION RAW UPGRADE (2021-12-05):
Defend the Prison Camp from an escape attempt by Chelt Cong guerillas
OPERATION FRILLY FERRY (2021-12-10):
Air rescue mission for VIPs in which we absolutely did not shoot a village full of UN peacekeepers
Gallantry Cross with Bronze Star: For actions saving VIPs during Operation Frilly Ferry
OPERATION TESTED REP (2021-12-12):
Assault on Da Krong Training Base, setting up a tribe on Pirate Island
Bronze Star Medal: For heroism during assault on Da Krong training base during Operation Tested Rep.
Meritorious Service Medal: For command activities during the defence of Sam Song Rail Bridge.
Presidential Unit Citation: For actions in the defence of the rail bridge at Sam Song, permitting evacuation of several cut off US companies and ensuring that the battle line did not collapse allowing an assault on Hue.
OPERATION FESTIVE LICENCE (2021-12-19):
Logistics on behalf of MajGen S. Claus. The children of Hanoi will have a Merry Christmas!
OPERATION JUICY WIDGET (2022-01-16):
Assault on the "Hill of Bastards" antiaircraft strongpoint at Grid 026034, Southwest of Lapoung
Bronze Star Medal: Awarded star to their Bronze Star for recovering casualties while under fire during the assault on the AA positions SW of Lapoung
OPERATION MEEK XYLOPHONE (2022-01-21):
Recon operation in the vicinity of Ro Ro, identifying and destroying SAM sites and radar installations.
Bronze Star Medal: Awarded star and combat v to their Bronze star for single-handedly keeping a friendly position from being overrun and wounded allies being captured during firefights in the vicinity of Ro Ro
Purple Heart
OPERATION PUMPED BEZIER (2022-01-23):
Retake Mouang Nong Airfield, by clearing out remaining fire control radar(s) and SAM sites. Northern end of airfield and rock of pilots cleared.
Meritorious Unit Commendation
OPERATION CHANGEABLE DOLMAN (2022-01-28):
Secure / destroy remaining SA2 launch sites, artillery sites, helicopter launch area and vehicle park. Secure Mouang Nong airfield command centre and obtain two-part radio codebook.
Secondary objectives: secure airfield and eliminate 90% of OPFOR forces. Secure villages Ban Neme, Ko We, Xiom La Ho, and Lan Tam Ve.
OPERATION OBESE UPWARD (2022-01-30):
Establish LZ Cheeto and defend near the village of Thongqa, then advance and try to find the position of the cheese supplies and their blue cheese additives. Blue cheese best cheese.
OPERATION QUICK SPOUSE (2022-02-02):
Continuing the mission to find and secure the cheese supplies and the blue additive. Blue cheese best cheese.
OPERATION YUMMY HANGOUT (2022-02-13):
Defend base from Chelt Assault, reorg at airbase for parachute insertion behind enemy lines, search and destroy enemy submarine.
OPERATION ADORED WIDOW (2022-07-22):
Convoy mission down to support the base at (insert name here). Multiple enemy rock formations close by, so we went to murder them. Mostly with artillery.
OPERATION VITAL STRETCH (2022-08-12):
The unusual CIA operatives from Operation Stove Turnip tasked Endgame Red with a psychological warfare operation: to locate four religious idols from the local tribespeople and use them to complete a ritual at altars scattered through the swamp. This would, they claimed, demonstrate US dominance and bring the local tribes back on-side (they having absconded with the weaponry supplied to win their affections to date). Unfortunately for Endgame Red, not only were the local tribespeople not keen to relinquish their idols, but the North Cheltenamese had sent Chelt Cong forces to secure the idols as well, and the People's Republic of Cambridge had sent a combat group as well, apparently not keen on their North Chelt allies from doing whatever they planned with the idols either. The CIA operatives, who were very slow-spoken, seemed keen for this all to be over, so that they could ask Roosevelt to let them come home, as they were especially curious to see if the war in Europe had been won yet and how the Normandy landings had gone.
Mentioned in Despatches: Mentioned in Dispatches for excellent leadership and awareness of the status of his personnel during recon operations in the swamps of the Bra
OPERATION BAD OUTHOUSE (2022-08-14):
Endgame Red are tasked with rapid relief of garrison forces and defence of several AVRN bases overlooking the river basin against sustained regular and irregular forces. During multiple rolling engagements they utilised air, artillery and naval support to drive back forces many times their size.
South Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation
OPERATION MAGNIFICENT RUTABAGA (2022-09-09):
Seek and destroy a SAM site to the west of Dak Pek SF camp. Multiple launchers and a pair or radars to be found and denied to the enemy.
Meritorious Service Medal: Awarded star to their Meritorious Service Medal for exceptional calmness and compassionate leadership in extreme battlefield situations during complex combined arms operations with unique personnel, as of Operation Magnificent Rutabaga
Gallantry Cross with Palm Leaf: Awarded Palm Leaf to their Gallantry Cross for actions in support of AVRN operations and positions in the Bra and Dak Pek regions, as of Operation Magnificent Rutabaga
Promoted to Capt.
OPERATION CORRELATING DIAGRAM (2022-09-16):
Sequence of small operations to embed at ATSB Mike-3
1) Escort a sampan of supplies to Kable Outpost at the centre of the island.
2) Land at LZ Fer De Lance, reconnoitre and clear the village of Binh Dai, Extract at LZ Boa
3) Land at LZ Cobra, Recon Bin Thoi Cultural Site and Rescue Captive Villagers from Criminal Forces of "Dodgi Irique", Extract at LZ Krait
OPERATION REVOLVING TOOTH (2022-09-18):
Reports of heavy Chelt Cong contact from patrols investigating the remains of Binh Dai required a recon response from Endgame Red. Assaulting a major encampment heavily defended by emplaced weapons, Endgame Red then cleared a large bunker complex with multiple entrances/exits in the teeth of Chelt Cong reinforcements. Intel was recovered indicating that the weapons had been supplied by "Dodjay Enrique".
OPERATION HURDLE UNCLE (2022-09-23):
Small team operation to first sweep and clear the bombed out area of Saigon under cover of darkness, followed by patrol of the local docks and village, with a tunnel clearance.
OPERATION INTRODUCING REPRESENTATION (2022-11-04):
Endgame Red were tasked with the defence of a hillside village at the corner of a river, to slow and stop the advance of CheltCong and then regular Cheltenamese Army.
OPERATION VOLUMINOUS SEMICOLON (2022-11-20):
Two armoured Chelt columns are trying to combine to push south and threated the peace-loving South Cheltnamese. Endgame Red, with Naval Support are sent in to secure a vital bridge crossing and prevent the two forces from linking up.
OPERATION SOOTHING MARSH (2022-11-25):
Infantry sweep and clear of pockets of resistance left behind after a failed Chelt attempt to force a river crossing.
OPERATION PATTING LOCKET (2022-12-18):
Air assault on the village of Ban Soung, then air move to LZ CUSTER to hold it against ongoing Chelt assault - things got a little bit spicy.
(THE USMC would like to clarify that PATTING LOCKET is not a euphemism for any lesbian activity, Victorian or otherwise.)
OPERATION WESTERN ENTREPRENEUR (2023-01-06):
Take a vehicle to the smugglers' camp, and clear the command post on the way, then move out to the west to raid more supplies and intel. And then hit that command post AGAIN on the way back.
Purple Heart
OPERATION QUESTIONABLE IDIOT (2023-01-08):
Re-take the supply and repair depot, then move south to take out the.. OH SHIT IT'S THE COMMAND ROCK
OPERATION ARDENT RIPPLE (2024-01-05):
Endgame Red is assigned as the SANDY ground team to conduct Combat Search And Rescue for the Air Force in conjunction with Jolly Green Giants, Broncos and Skyraider "Spud" strike aircraft. Two CSAR missions completed; a pilot recovered from just north of Da Krong, and a dual-crew flight from the marshes of the Mekong Delta. All for only a relatively modest expenditure of US aircraft.
Bronze Star Medal: AWARDED Star to their Bronze Star (BSM) for recoving a crashed pilot under heavy fire in the Da Krong valley while still maintaining operational control of their squad and eliminating several chelt attempting to overrun the crash site during Operation Ardent Ripple.
OPERATION BEHOLDER VIRTUE (2024-01-07):
Two further CSAR missions, one pilot down and taken to a small Chelt village, from where we had to rescue him, and one pilot down on what will forever be known as The Island Of Bastards and Mountains, where we had to try to get a Jolly Green pickup on an island with 3 square inches of flat land.
OPERATION CLEAN BLANKET (2024-01-19):
SAR Ops.
Scramble 1: Two pilots ejected over the river bend north of Keng Lat. One pilot KIA, one recovered by Endgame Red and extracted.
Scramble 2: Single pilot shot down over San Bay Ban, chute landed on the coastline SW of the airfield. Pilot recovered by Endgame Red. Two Jolly Greens and Sandy-1 shot down, crew recovered by Endgame Red.
OPERATION VANITY SNOB (2024-01-21):
SAR Ops.
Scramble 1: A4 pilot crashed in a mountain valley north of Hue, near medium mobile AAA battery on plateau, pilot ejected. Pilot recovered alive by Endgame Red but killed by Chelt Cong recoilless fire near escape LZ.
Scramble 2: Two ejected pilots linked up during E&E and took shelter in a shop in Attapeu before it was occupied by a CC Main Force with light armour and vehicle support. Both pilots recovered successfully, Covey-1 shot down but recovered from the site successfully.
OPERATION COMPARING SINGLETS (2024-02-09):
1. Defend the pilot hiding in the cave system at Cu Chi from Chelt attack.
2. Clear the tunnel complex found in Operation Euphoric Diabetes
3. Assault a fortified Chelt position on a hilltop West of San Bay Ban Airfield to clear out a mortar battery which was preventing AVRN forces from consolidating their landing zone.
OPERATION SNEAKY GUARD (2024-02-11):
Scramble 1: Pilot in the air 1-2 km east of Ban Len. Landed east of MSS Leghorn and fled east while the squad rambled a little.
Scramble 2: F-111 crashed 3M W of Phao Noi, in the immediate vicinity of Thud Ridge. SEAD suppressed the SAM site, with Sandy flight continuing to rain down fire on it, but Sandy 2 was hit and crashed and has been captured by the Chelt. The pilots of the F-111 were recovered successfully although Jolly-2 was damaged enough to need to perform a forced landing and the squad left the AO on Jolly-1.
OPERATION ECOLOGY EPHEMERIS (2024-02-16):
OP1: Is Death Better than the Taunton Travelodge?
Endgame Red attempted to intercept a convoy of POWs being taken through CC controlled South Cheltenam across the border into North Cheltenam where they would then be unrecoverable until after the war. Unfortunately, anti-aircraft fire shot down both USMC helicopters despite air support from TACAIR, and in the ensuing running battle the convoy was intercepted but destroyed during the combat, killing the POWs. Endgame Red were successfully extracted by the US Army Air Corps who provided a recovery helicopter on short notice from a nearby FOB.
OP2: Don't let the Intel get Moist
During the return to home base, Endgame Red were diverted to support a 'special forces' operation on a thickly jungled island off the coast of South Cheltenam, recovering several suitcases of 'Intel' from CC hands on behalf of the less than charismatic special forces liaison officer. The use of Naval Gunfire support from the nearby destroyed USS Henderson led to operational success, but the island and its villages were left ablaze as Endgame Red returned to Maxwell Field for the mission debrief.
Navy Cross: For heroically defending the bodies of his fallen troops during intense enemy assaults by treasonous guerilla forces on their final defensive position, refusing to fall back and allow them to be overrun in a determined and valiant attempt to ensure that they could be reached for medevac, allowing no marine to be left behind as long as breath remained in his body during Operation Lymphocyte Airspace.
Killed in Action - 2024-03-03