Service Jacket
National Defense Service Medal
Vietnam Service Medal
Vietnam Campaign Medal
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 heroic actions to defend the platoon RO working to repair vital communications equipment, against repeated Cheltenamese assaults on the radio room by fire and grenades, sustaining grievous wounds but not withdrawing from the overwatch position during the defence of Firebase Warden in 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.
Navy and Marine Corps Commendation: AWARDED Star to their Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Combat V (NMCCM-V) for efforts to provide perimeter security to the aid station to enable the platoon to regain the initiative after heavy casualties during the assault on OP Bandersnatch in Operation Painted Eardrum.
OPERATION TOREADOR LADY (2025-01-03):
Patrol around the roads by Ban Phiadouang. Land mines, rickshaws, and swarms of Chelt.
Promoted to PFC.
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.
Mentioned in Despatches: AWARDED Mention in Dispatches (MID) for dedicated efforts to protect the medical station during Operation Compassionate Burrito. While his unit was engaged in clearing the village of Ban Onglouang and the nearby fortified rock positions, PFC Gucci regularly returned to the medical station, and, once rendered conscious again, participated in its defence each time.
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 Commendation: AWARDED Star to their Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Combat V (NMCCM-V) for assaulting and clearing an enemy machine gun position which was covering the platoon's route of advance during the storming of the radar installation as part of Operation Content Carrot.
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.
Mentioned in Despatches: AWARDED Mention in Dispatches (MID) for situational awareness, noting a grenade being thrown by a Chelt Cong guerilla down an apparently clear ladder hole in a command fortification, and proceeding to investigate and recover the USMC casualty at the foot of the aforementioned ladder after eliminating the guerilla during Operation Graphic Rabbit.
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.
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.
Navy and Marine Corps Medal: AWARDED Navy and Marine Corps Medal (NMCM) for acting, despite their own injuries, to defend and stabilise wounded comrades during the battle at Phouvong as part of defence of an IDAP camp in Operation Settler Spirit, ensuring their safety until a medic could arrive.
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.
Navy and Marine Corps Medal: AWARDED Star to their Navy and Marine Corps Medal (NMCM) for taking control of a USMC fireteam despite their junior rank, performing the role of fireteam leader with skill and courage during jungle patrol in the Dong valley as part of Operation Grape Diplomacy.
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.
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.
Navy and Marine Corps Commendation: AWARDED Star to their Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Combat V (NMCCM-V) for locating and recovering downed aircrew from an A-3D Skywarrior under fire as USMC forces overran a heavily defended enemy position in Operation Press Recording.
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.
Navy and Marine Corps Medal: AWARDED Star to their Navy and Marine Corps Medal (NMCM) for operating a mobile Quad-50 AA gun during convoy operations between San Bay Ban to the village of Niem Tin, suppressing enemy assaults with withering fire during Operation Prize Manor.
Purple Heart
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.
Mentioned in Despatches: AWARDED Mention in Dispatches (MID) for leadship during mountain island battles as part of Operation Dancing Proposition. With squad command devolved upon them, PFC Gucci kept their unit moving past multiple enemy fixed positions and ensured casualties of earlier assaults were recovered and treated.
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 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.
Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal: AWARDED Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal for displaying recall of map reading skills from basic training, a skill which normally atrophies by the rank of PFC owing to excessive crayon consumption, when supporting a training exercise for the Monkey Mountain security force as part of Operation Spoling Ghost.
Noted on File: ORDERED TDY 2 Weeks Quartermaster Corps Central Laundry Saigon to provide support and assist him in determining which ranks and their identifiers should cause them to be addressed as 'sir' during conversation, with particular emphasis on sleeve chevrons.
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 Star to their Bronze Star Medal (BSM) for actions during the assault on the airfield main building as part of Operation Ignoring Leave. PFC Gucci stormed the HQ building killing several defenders, then located the target intel during vicious room to room close quarters battle, facing opponents whom in some cases exhibited unusual powers to move through seemingly solid objects. He then defended the casualty collection point against waves of attackers from incoming quick reaction forces, despite being injured themself multiple times, and refused to allow the squad to be pushed out of the strongpoint and the casualties overrun by the enemy through grit and determination.
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.
Navy and Marine Corps Commendation: AWARDED Star to their Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Combat V (NMCCM-V) for efforts undertaken on riverine ops as part of Operation Pure Pie, during which they displayed a strong eye for terrain in forming and conducting assaults on enemy positions, an elevated sense of when to close assault machine gun positions, and a moderate disregard for personal cover, attributes which on balance supported the unit goals.
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.
Noted on File: ORDERED TDY 1 Week Saigon Hospital Station for use in medical training for freshly in-country field surgeons relating to the amount of shrapnel a body can contain and still live as a result of his continuing dedication to impromptu mine detection activity most recently displayed during Operation Pink Bush.
Promoted to Cpl.
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.
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 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.
OPERATION PUMPKIN CHASM (2025-06-20):
Continuation of Op TURBAN SINK, Endgame Red combat patrols through another three grid squares, taking out the regional Chelt HQ.
OPERATION DOUBT STOREY (2025-06-27):
Let's trip over another punji then get mortared.
EGR continue their sweep and clear to the North of OP Rockpile. Engaging enemy fixed positions, roving patrols and AAA sites.
OPERATION PRACTICING SPHINX (2025-07-04):
Check the collection of bridges all along the river for explosives, defuse them, and run away.