Service Jacket
National Defense Service Medal
Vietnam Service Medal
Vietnam Campaign Medal
Joined campaign as PFC.
Meritorious Unit Commendation
Bronze Star Medal: For determined and heroic action in defence of Firebase Macgregor, Attapeau.
OPERATION SQUALID ARMADILLO (2021-10-03):
Combat Patrol, Khe Sahn Province, Vicinity of Old Fort. In which marines can't count to three.
Navy and Marine Corps Medal: For landing a damaged Huey while under fire and while injured with no further injury to craft or crew.
Bronze Star Medal: For actions in defence of halted critical convoy while out of range of support.
Purple Heart
OPERATION RAW UPGRADE (2021-12-05):
Defend the Prison Camp from an escape attempt by Chelt Cong guerillas
OPERATION TESTED REP (2021-12-12):
Assault on Da Krong Training Base, setting up a tribe on Pirate Island
Mentioned in Despatches: For piloting skill during exfiltration from assault on Da Krong Commando training base.
OPERATION FESTIVE LICENCE (2021-12-19):
Logistics on behalf of MajGen S. Claus. The children of Hanoi will have a Merry Christmas!
Promoted to LCpl.
OPERATION JUICY WIDGET (2022-01-16):
Assault on the "Hill of Bastards" antiaircraft strongpoint at Grid 026034, Southwest of Lapoung
Mentioned in Despatches: Mentioned in Dispatches for accurate and effective fire disabling gunners of fixed mount weapons on a strongly defended AA position, enabling a successful assault
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.
Bronze Star Medal: Awarded star and combat V to their Bronze Star for taking command during a catastrophic situation during the assault on Mouang Nong Airfield, arranging medevac and securing an exfiltration route for casualties
Meritorious Unit Commendation
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.
Air Medal: Awarded Air Medal for logistics flights under heavy fire and a successful autorotation landing of a disabled heavy transport helicopter during the construction of LZ Cheeto
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 THEVERAL LITHPS (2022-02-20):
Continued withdrawal of Endgame Red from an enemy AO compromised by nuclear exchange. ER successfully assaulted and neutralised a number of enemy strong points and neutralised C&C elements within the battlespace before effecting an extraction using unfamiliar equipment whilst under sustained assaulted by combined force of armour and infantry.
OPERATION TATTERED FAN (2022-07-17):
Back to the 'nam and into the Bra. Endgame Red conduct a river patrol in their new area of operations.
Mentioned in Despatches: Mentioned in Dispatches for volunteering to remain solo to defend the boats during a landing element of a river patrol and in doing so prevented a hostile boat force from destroying them
OPERATION STOVE TURNIP (2022-08-07):
Endgame Red are directed to locate and assist a pair of CIA operatives who were tasked with acting as liaisons to a swamp-dwelling Cheltnamese tribe following their re-establishing of contact. The paperwork on the original orders was extremely faded and worn.
OPERATION STRANGE REPAIR (2022-08-21):
Continuing the mission to find and destroy the artillery park. Which we did. And then a lot of people got shot and dragged off by Chelt to places unknown...
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 QUILL GATE (2022-10-16):
Protect the village of... something. And then go kill the enemy base where they kept sending in QRFs from.
OPERATION DENSE ENEMY (2022-10-23):
Operation on behalf of Col Lynch, up to Yen Tum disguised as Sailor Moon, grab some crates, and take them up the river on boats.
OPERATION MERIT RAP (2022-10-30):
Endgame Red, on their way to some hard earned shore leave, were shot down over enemy territory. Still in our best ballgowns, we had to escape.
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 CONSTANT TIMBER (2023-01-15):
Southern patrol route through the AO, with several close calls with a lot of fiery doom and running around like morons trying to find any surviving supplies.
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.
Navy and Marine Corps Commendation: AWARDED Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Combat V (NMCCM-V) for actions with both direct fires and assistance in supporting the movement under fire of the squad in exceptionally difficult mountainous island terrain including supporting safety of heavier laden individuals during Operation Beholder Virtue.
OPERATION EUPHORIC DIABETES (2024-01-14):
Enemy spotters suspected at three locations. Endgame Red sent in to carry out foot patrols to find them and give them the bad news.
Navy and Marine Corps Medal: AWARDED Star to their Navy and Marine Corps Medal (NMCM) for effective helicopter support of Endgame Red despite heavy ground fire during Operation Euphoric Diabetes, suppressing air defences which had been turned on the ground team.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Noted on File: AWARDED Marine Aviator Badge (MAB) for expert gunship piloting enabling the destruction of multiple sets of enemy defences permitting the platoon to advance during Operation Painted Eardrum
Mentioned in Despatches: AWARDED Mention in Dispatches (MID) for expert reflexes and marksmanship accuracy in eliminating an infiltrator who was about to shoot the platoon's medic while tending to wounded before they were able to attack and cause a cascade casualty effect despite heavily obscured jungle terrain in Operation Realm Light.