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Date Posted: 21:19:47 02/19/11 Sat
Author: Brian
Subject: Reply to Doug

Doug:

Well Doug, just how many meaningless medals do you need for just doing what you were supposed to do?

I went on so many Combat Assaults in Vietnam that I can't even remember anyway near the actual number, yet unlike the chopper pilots and their crews I was awarded only one Air Medal for being in a "hot" combat assault, (although I made more hot assaults than just one). So whenever I see some VN Vet chopper pilots and chopper crew guys with an absurd number attachment (AN ACTUAL TWO DIGIT NUMBER DEVICE) to his Air Medal it always makes me smile at the utter ridiculousness of the issuing of these awards and the whole award system in general...I mean, come on people...after all, when their "Combat Assault" of landing us at the LZ job is over (except to return back to a major Base Camp), our job as Grunts and other attached personnel was just beginning. (In the 101st we stayed in the Field for 30 plus days).

Thanks for the ride chopper guys so us 101 guys could get faster to wherever Intel thought the NVA was - in the mountainous triple canopy jungle along (and inside) the Laotian Border of I Corps.

Shouldn't I also get 12 or whatever absurd number of Air Medals! Wasn't I also aboard the Huey during these "Combat Assaults"?!

You guys and your obsession with getting yet more pointless jazz to sport on your uniforms...Christ they issue an award for just being in the military for a day! Every couple of years I see the military add yet another medal or badge, so a guy could end up with ribbons and badges up to his epaulets after 20 years service and never have even heard a shot fired in anger.

I'm waiting for the day they start giving out medals for getting a medals to add to this crazed nonsense policy of awards for nothing.

I say,if you want to bitch about awards, do something that makes sense; i.e., how about fighting to put all valor awards ahead of the rest of non-valor awards as a cause?

Brian
Former VN Grunt of 2/501, 101 ABN DIV 1968-69

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