Service Jacket
National Defense Service Medal
Vietnam Service Medal
Vietnam Campaign Medal
Promoted to SSgt.
OPERATION ATTENTION LYE (2024-09-22):
Drive the truck up to the firebase, and then defend it while we try to get the parts for the radio to get help, as we're assaulted for many days on end by waves of Chelty bastards. And a mortar. And a flame tank. And rockets.
Bronze Star Medal: AWARDED Bronze Star Medal (BSM) for leading a strike team outside the wire while Firebase Warden was under mortar bombardment during the hours of darkness to successfully find and eliminate the carefully concealed and well defended hostile mortar site during Operation Attention Lye.
Navy Unit Commendation: AWARDED Navy Unit Commendation for dedicated and determined repair and defence of an overrun firebase, preventing the loss of material and the location to the surrounding consolidating enemy forces, and holding fast despite determined attacks by large numbers of hostiles until relief troops could arrive in Operation Attention Lye.
OPERATION BEAR CHANGE (2024-09-27):
SAR Operation to recover the 5 crew members of a downed E2 Hawkeye aircraft.
OPERATION PAINTED EARDRUM (2024-09-29):
Assault and take a hill (OP Bandersnatch) to get intel about supply caches. And then go blow up the caches.
Purple Heart
Noted on File: AWARDED Marine Aerial Navigator Badge (MANB) for only getting lost once during the hunt for remaining weapons caches in Operation Lone Yoga.
OPERATION DEATH SPHINX (2024-10-06):
Find the secret entrance to the enemy base through the cave on the riverfront, work your way up, find the intel and destroy the base.
Mentioned in Despatches: AWARDED Mention in Dispatches (MID) for tireless and effective leadership while under sustained SACLOS missile strikes during Operation Realm Light.
OPERATION BORE PUSSER (2024-11-03):
With the assistance of air and light artillery (mortars) support, Endgame Red is assigned to sweep and clear the town just north of the airfield, which had been occupied by a motorised PAVN company.
Navy and Marine Corps Commendation: AWARDED Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Combat V (NMCCM-V) for superlative leadership and co-ordination skills of multiple fireteams acting independently during the defence of the village in Operation Freak Havoc.
OPERATION EXPEDITING TEMPO (2024-12-01):
Defend a village of pro-US leaning civilians from sustained assault. Maintaining security of the sector and keeping hearts and minds pro-'FREEDOM'
Navy and Marine Corps Medal: AWARDED Navy and Marine Corps Medal (NMCM) for efforts to maintain positive relations with US-supporting civilians during the defence of their farming community during Operation Expediting Tempo.
South Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation: AWARDED South Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation for their determination to protect civilian lives from infiltration and direct attacks during the defence of the agricultural station during Operation Expediting Tempo.
OPERATION TYPHOON HAND (2024-12-06):
Patrol with air support to take out 2 radio towers, 2 command centres and a logistics base.
Purple Heart
OPERATION TOREADOR LADY (2025-01-03):
Patrol around the roads by Ban Phiadouang. Land mines, rickshaws, and swarms of Chelt.
OPERATION COMPASSIONATE BURRITO (2025-01-12):
Combat Patrol west of The Bra, clearing Ban Onglouang (PH Barbie Girl) then fortifying it up to withstand attacks overnight. Following day, push down the road to Antoum top clear some bastards out of fortified rocks.
OPERATION CONTENT CARROT (2025-01-17):
Find and destroy the five missiles of an SA-2 GUIDELINE SAM site, its FAN SONG guidance radar and the associated supply dump.
Navy and Marine Corps Medal: AWARDED Star to their Navy and Marine Corps Medal (NMCM) for maintaining cohesion and momentum during a complex and challenging combat environment during the destruction of an SA-2 Guideline site containing FULLY FUELLED missiles as part of Operation Content Carrot, rapidly and flexibly responding to mass casualty events with a carefully considered amount of sarcasm to maintain combat effectiveness on the part of their marines and making effective use of support assets.
OPERATION GRAPHIC RABBIT (2025-01-19):
Search for the radio transmitters in the marked areas, then use them to triangulate the location of the command centre.
Navy and Marine Corps Medal: AWARDED Star to their Navy and Marine Corps Medal (NMCM) for actions to reform the scattered and shattered marine unit during a casualty event from heavy weapons fire that threatened to render the platoon combat ineffective and in need of evacuation. Their actions to rally the platoon allowed the mission to locate the three enemy concealed radio positioned to be located and destroyed for a successful completion of Operation Graphic Rabbit.
OPERATION SETTLER SPIRIT (2025-01-26):
A flight of three helicopters (Loach, Cobra, Guns-a-G-GO) under the control of a Forward Air Controller (Bird Dog) take on multiple hostile ground targets with varying success. Upon return to base, alternative ground transport is organsied to take a convoy of supplies to an IDAP camp in the village of Phouvong, which then needed defending from hostile attacks.
Meritorious Unit Commendation: AWARDED Meritorious Unit Commendation for the defence of the IDAP encampment at Phouvong in Operation Settler Spirit following a supply delivery, emphasising US support of NGO activity in South ChelteNam for the betterment of the average citizen in the move towards civilisation from their west-country origins.
OPERATION GEOLOGY INSPECTOR (2025-02-28):
Insert deep behind Chelt lines and assault the SA-2 GUIDELINE site at Thud Ridge. To destroy: 7 x launchers, 1 x FAN SONG radar, 2 x backup radar trucks. Destroyed: 4 x launcher, 1 x FAN SONG, 1 x backup radar truck, and back across the bridge 75 seconds before the SF unit holding it were due to disengage.
Navy and Marine Corps Commendation: AWARDED Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Combat V (NMCCM-V) for retaining combat tempo and momentum on a deep strike mission behind People's Avon Valley Regulars lines to locate and destroy another North Valley Air Force surface to air missile site in Operation Geology Inspector, personally flanking and destroying an enemy combat vehicle that was supressing the platoon and providing vital medical aid to stabilise injured for the corpsman to attend.
OPERATION PRESS RECORDING (2025-03-02):
SAR for the crew of an A-3D Skywarrior bomber down in the vicinity of Fuck That. While TACAIR was available and landed some hefty strikes (some on the enemy, and some on the platoon) difficulty with radio propagation meant that in the end, a Herculean effort from the infantry was required instead.
OPERATION PRIZE MANOR (2025-03-07):
At the behest of Colonel Sunray, EGR is tasked to escort the wallet of an ARVN Major from San Bay Ban airfield to the village of Niem Tin, where said Major was last known to be. The only heli has a prior engagement in Saigon, so the unit are issued with a machine gun truck, and an AA truck, and must convoy through hostile territory to reunite the Major and his cash.
OPERATION DANCING PROPOSITION (2025-03-09):
A lovely little jaunt to the seaside. And a selection of islands. And a stairway which did not go to heaven.
OPERATION BLEAK ANESTHESIOLOGY (2025-03-14):
End Game Red is tasked with clearing the fortified and defended villages of Ban Hoang, Binh Minh, An Hoa, Lac My, and Pet Mep. The defenders are well prepared, and holding hostages, making it a tough task for our marines.
South Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation: AWARDED South Cheltnamese Gallantry Cross for the liberation of hostages and multiple Chelt-Cong controlled villages in the vicinity of Ban Hoang during Operation Bleak Anaesthesiology.
Mentioned in Despatches: AWARDED Mention in Dispatches (MID) for keeping the platoon together and focused on the objectives during the clearance of the fortified and heavily defended villages of Ban Hoang, Binh Minh, An Hoa, Lac My, and Pet Mep during Operation Bleak Anaesthesiology despite the restrictions of tight ROE due to enemy hostages.
OPERATION WELFARE HYENA (2025-03-21):
EGR is sent to sweep the Mekong Delta for four AA guns known to be operating in the area.
Mentioned in Despatches: AWARDED Mention in Dispatches (MID) for responding swiftly to changing combat situations during the search within the Delta for enemy AAA positions in Operation Welfare Hyena, adjusting the advance and tactics of the unit as required to push through multiple fortified positions while under mortar fire.
OPERATION CRUST OPENING (2025-04-18):
The dastardly French have made a sly, backroom deal to sell dairy centrafuges to the North Chelt government. To prevent them from using this technology to increase the intensity of fat in their cream, EGR is tasked with a search and recovery mission. Using helos to search the landscape, find the convoys carrying these centrafuges, secure the trucks, then recover them to any available US base.
Presidential Unit Citation: AWARDED Presidential Unit Citation for successful completion of Operation Crust Opening, intercepting a delivery of dairy centrifuges that will undoubtedly set back cream enrichment operations in North ChelteNam by years and in so doing supporting US strategic attempts at signing an anti-profiteroleation treaty with key states.
OPERATION SPOILING GHOST (2025-04-20):
Endgame Red is tasked with Red Teaming Monkey Mountain, a key US communications facility. Wearing North Chelt gear and using captured weapons modified to fire blanks the aim was to reach and take the base.
OPERATION IGNORING LEAVE (2025-04-25):
Sneaky beaky night mission over the border into Dorset to observe and recover/destroy information on the new weapon, Wild Wurzel, which is being surreptitiously refitted to North CheltNamese aircraft by the theoretically neutral forces of the Dorset dairy farm leadership under the rule of Chairman Moo.
Navy and Marine Corps Medal: AWARDED Star to their Navy and Marine Corps Medal (NMCM) for effective platoon SNCO leadership during the assault on the airfield as part of Operation Ignoring Leave, avoiding micromanagement when direct involvement in orders was not necessary but stepping in to co-ordinate when necessary in a chaotic battlespace.
Navy Unit Commendation: AWARDED Navy Unit Citation for actions to prevent Dorset-ChelteNam technology transfers that could have critically affected the war effort during Operation Ignoring Leave
OPERATION FINGER CARIBOU (2025-04-27):
Garrison and defend the firebase of A Luoi at the southern end of the A Shou valley, as Cheltie approaches through the mist.
OPERATION PURE PIE (2025-05-16):
Endgame Red conducted riverine operations through the Cheltenham river system, engaging targets of opportunity and enemy concentrations, along with destroying several fortified positions controlling the river valleys.
Mentioned in Despatches: AWARDED Mention in Dispatches (MID) for excellent expansion and execution of his commissioned leader's command directives during river ops in Operation Pure Pie, ensuring that the desired effects were achieved in exact accordance with that leader's visualised outcomes.
OPERATION PINK BUSH (2025-05-18):
Hold the village of Bo Lieu on the river, with small detours to rescue the ambulance and save allies.
Bronze Star Medal: AWARDED Star to their Bronze Star Medal (BSM) for deliberately drawing RPG fire from across the river valley to enable a medic to extract a casualty from the rock face during Operation Pink Bush, despite the saturation nature of enemy fire almost guaranteeing - as proved a short time later - that he would suffer serious wounds himself in the attempt. Despite this the SSgt continued to return fire to draw fire until withdrawing behind cover and falling unconscious from blood loss.
Noted on File: ORDERED PCS to assume SNCO duties, Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion 5th Marines (2/5), 1st Marine Division (Forward), I Corps Tactical Zone, Republic of Vietnam.
Promoted to GySgt.