Service Jacket
National Defense Service Medal
Vietnam Service Medal
Vietnam Campaign Medal
OPERATION MEDICAL PIGEON (2024-03-31):
1) Duty as Embassy Marines in Saigon as the genuine articles were stuck TDY in Pleiku. The ambassador survived.
2) SAR north of Bru. The pilot was successfully recovered, despite the platoon getting surrounded by Chelt Cong forces.
OPERATION SENSIBLE MONKEY (2024-04-05):
Escort a truck of supplies from Dak Pek base to Outpost Planck along the primary, but heavily ambush prone, road route.
OPERATION SWINGING SWEETSHOP (2024-04-07):
Patrol the area over the river to the east, of Dak Pek base, identify and prosecute mortar, rocket and machine gun sites.
Mentioned in Despatches: For actions in destroying Chelt artillery pieces and close-assaulting enemy positions despite being outnumbered significantly during Operation Swinging Sweetshop.
OPERATION RECLAIM HOUND (2024-04-12):
Patrol to the south of Dak Pek base, taking out any AA in the area to allow a heavy lift helo in, then mount a radio antenna on the hill near Tonk’s Doghouse and defend it from enemy attack.
Bronze Star Medal: For single-handedly flanking and destroying with expert grenade fire a divisional antitank gun which was pinning down the platoon with heavy fire from a position of cover during Operation Reclaim Hound.
OPERATION REQUIRED BULLYING (2024-04-14):
1) SAR in Dak Pek region. F111 down east of Torpex’s Crater. Survival pod failed to separate, one pilot body recovered killed on impact. Second plot recovere alive but killed by intense enemy fire en route to pickup.
2) SAR in Dak Pek region. A4 down SW of Claymore’s Crossing. Pilot recovered from parachute point alive. Evac helicopter disabled by fire at the LZ but successfully autorotated 1km N of LZ. Second evac helicopter returned to base with all hands.
Navy and Marine Corps Commendation: For organising several members of the platoon when left behind enemy lines during an extraction, supporting their escape and evasion efforts until rescue with both advice and effective grenade fire during Operation Required Bullying.
OPERATION LEAPING CHIVE (2024-04-19):
Mission 1: Take a convoy of M113s to defend an IDAP camp overnight
Mision 2: 3x helicopter seek and destroy missions south of the river in The Bra.
South Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation: For actions defending NGO personnel supporting deprived villages during Operation Leaping Chive.
OPERATION ALIENATED SODA (2024-04-21):
After a Budweiser-filled night of drinking, the group is without transportation and kit in the jungle. Using their wits, and what they can pilfer from the enemy, they must make their way back to base.
OPERATION BREAKING BEGONIA (2024-04-26):
Deployed to a village deep in the jungle to provide defence against potential Chelt Cong saboteurs, Endgame Red found themselves mixed up in some sort of MACV-SOG operation in which vast numbers of insurgents were determined to overrun the small settlement and eliminate the special operations force there. Eventually, the SF group evacuated the village and Endgame Red were free to make their own way to an LZ to escape the encircling Cheltenamese forces.
OPERATION INTERIOR VERANDA (2024-04-28):
Endgame Red search the towns and villages of the Son Bin Tanh region for a covert political operative known as 'the elusive Gary', working with a detailed description: a red headband, black pajamas, and aviator shades. Finally cornering their target in a strongly defended village, the HVT was captured and successfully extracted back to base.
Reports that a person was seen falling from a USMC helicopter earlier in the mission are being strongly denied by all parties on the operation.
OPERATION WEAK TRANSCRIPT (2024-05-05):
River patrol to deliver mail & informational leaflets to island villages, with the usual attempts by the Chelt Cong to interrupt things.
OPERATION REMEMBERING LASAGNA (2024-05-10):
Endgame Red provide heavy vehicle support to USMC troops defending a town and river crossing south of the Song Bin Tanh airbase. Under sustained assault and artillery bombardment, the local Chelt Cong having emptied their hidden arsenals of stolen heavy equipment in an attempt to deal a heavy blow to South Cheltnamese democracy in the region, the tank platoon and infantry were forced to pull back to reconsolidated, before assaulting back across the river after putting in airstrikes to retake the town. While losses were high, Chelt Cong insurgent activity in the region will be severely curtailed for some time to come.
OPERATION SPLITTING CHOPSTICKS (2024-05-12):
Endgame Red were dispatched on a standard helicopter airmobile assault with gunship cover to seek and destroy a Chelt Cong resupply and consolidation encampment believed to be in a jungle village in the vicinity of Nui Can Tho. Heavy bombs were deployed from C113s to prepare an LZ so as to ensure the element of surprise. Endgame Red successfully destroyed the encampment despite some stiff resistance, but a resupply aircraft was shot down during the operation. Endgame Red successfully recovered the pilot alive from the crash site, although the copilot and crew chief were killed during the crash landing. The unit fought their way to another LZ after their first extraction chopper was downed due to a combination of enemy fire and pilot error. The chopper pilot was also retrieved and both pilots were successfully recovered back to SBT Airbase.
Bronze Star Medal: For counterattacking enemy infantry and armour with both weapons and commandeered vehicles, determinedly slowing the advance and allowing the redeployment of friendly forces during the assault on Hill 220, PKL, and in doing so sustaining grievous wounds which they eventually succumbed to during Operation Waiting Shoreline.
Meritorious Unit Commendation: For the assault and destruction of the rebuilt SAM site at Hill 220, PKL province, allowing resumed air operations in the region to save significant numbers of American lives in the ongoing conflict during Operation Waiting Shoreline.
Killed in Action - 2024-05-17
Promoted to PFC.