Service Jacket
National Defense Service Medal
Vietnam Service Medal
Vietnam Campaign Medal
Promoted to SA.
OPERATION WEEPING RING (2024-08-16):
Garrison the fire base at Khe Gio through a series of North Chelt assaults over several days. Then, move up to the west to retake the village of Lang Mau and the river crossing beyond.
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 eliminating enemy snipers blocking the platoon's route to the underwater entrances of the enemy base while continuing to triage and treat wounded during Operation Death Sphinx.
Navy and Marine Corps Commendation: AWARDED Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Combat V (NMCCM-V) for their actions ensuring that all injured platoon members were loaded onto evacuation helicopters despite a cascading casualty situation during logistics operations in Operation Buyer Net.
Mentioned in Despatches: AWARDED Mention in Dispatches for creating a casualty collection point, collecting casualties to it, providing triage and medical, while defending it against close assaults and using their own body to shield the casualties during search and destroy operations in 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.
Bronze Star Medal: AWARDED Bronze Star Medal (BSM) for dedicated and heroic acts of competence providing solo medical support to multiple wounded while defending the aid station at the same time, at one point being so absorbed with saving the lives of their fellow marines that they passed out from their wounds sustained but which they had not had time to treat during village clearance of hostile forces during Operation Sousaphone Servitude.
OPERATION VALUABLE HALT (2024-11-29):
Construction of Fort Wrench on river island chain to prevent Chelt movements over the river
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'
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 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.
Mentioned in Despatches: AWARDED Mention in Dispatches (MID) for expert triage, ensuring that a steady supply of recovered casualties were able to return to the battle while the squad was under heavy assault and bombardment during action to eliminate the supply dump of an SA-2 missile site as part of Operation Content Carrot, despite the best efforts of close-assaulting Chelt Cong and their molotov cocktails.
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 Navy and Marine Corps Medal (NMCM) for managing a significant number of casualties during an incident of heavy combat during the search for enemy hidden radio positions as part of Operation Graphic Rabbit. As the sole medic conscious, Clapman focused on the wellbeing of their patients despite intense incoming fire, continuing to apply bandages to wounded despite themselves receiving several shrapnel wounds.
OPERATION ANOTHER INCONVENIENCE (2025-01-24):
Insert into padd fields to the north of the hostile village of Pia Hom, clear the immediate area then proceed NW towards a large enemy tunnel complex. Clear it, then head home.
Navy and Marine Corps Commendation: AWARDED Star to their Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Combat V (NMCCM-V) for decisive close combat actions during the assault on the entrance to an enemy tunnel complex during Operation Another Inconvenience, demonstrating the ability to lay down both effective suppressive and aimed fire even when no particular opposition was present in the beaten zone, but fortunately also when there was.
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.
Mentioned in Despatches: AWARDED Mention in Dispatches (MID) for efforts to support civilian and marine casualties during the defence of the IDAP camp in the village of Phouvong as part of Operation Settler Spirit, on several occasions going outside the wire to recover injured comrades who had even more inadvisably left the wire prior.
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.
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.
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.
Bronze Star Medal: AWARDED Bronze Star Medal (BSM) distinguishing themselves with both dedicated medical actions and the use of their rifle in defense of the platoon's temporary positions during a covert operation to prevent enemy technology transfers as part of Operation Ignoring Leave, battling quick reaction forces, local guard elements, erratic scientists, vicious stairwells and doors blocked by seemingly arcane forces
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.
Navy and Marine Corps Medal: AWARDED Star to their Navy and Marine Corps Medal (NMCM) for heroic efforts in triage and medical treatment of casualties during the defence of the A Loi firebase as part of Operation Finger Caribou. At several points the medical bunker was so full of casualties there was no room to bring in more, and despite this overload as the only conscious medic, all injured members of the platoon were successfully returned to the line.
OPERATION BUBBLING LAPDOG (2025-05-30):
Four separate sorties as air cavalry. FAC ordered to sweep and send a preparatory bombardment, then the marines went in to sweep up and clear the area, lift out, and on to the next.
Promoted to SM.
OPERATION SURE INSTRUCTION (2025-06-01):
Sweeping patrol through the Chelt countryside. Air support via our Air Force friends, and a Seahorse on standby as required.
OPERATION CHIEF ECONOMICS (2025-06-06):
Repeated iterations of helicopter insertions, sweeping patrols, then helicopter exfils. Technically a training mission for EGR, but no one told the Chelt that.
OPERATION TURBAN SINK (2025-06-15):
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.