Humanitarian Service Medal (HSM) - APPROVED OPERATIONS The table below lists approved operations for award of the HSM. Dominican Republic. endobj
MUC = Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation Total casualties were relatively light: two USMC Embassy Security Guards killed in an attack by ground fire, and two USMC CH-46 search and rescue helicopter aircrews presumed dead following a crash at sea. Be sure you inspect the contents thoroughly before tossing your packing material. C
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9 Nka,@m The evacuation of 7,806 US citizens and foreign nationals from these two places by the US Air Force and Marine Corps helicopters was supported by a major air effort by the Air Force and Navy. 11) Vietnam Summer Fall 1969 9 June 31 October 1969 You will also receive a transmittal letter telling what medals and ribbons the Navy is including in the package as well as a list of awards for which you may be eligible but for which the Navy does not provide the actual award because it was issued by a foreign government. You should be able to print the citation text. At the beginning of 1975 the Khmer Republic, a United States-supported military government, controlled only the Phnom Penh area and a string of towns along the Mekong River that provided the crucial supply route for food and munitions coming upriver from South Vietnam. Vietnam (Evacuation Operation Frequent Wind) [lower-alpha 2] 29 April 1975 30 April 1975 Mayagez Operation 15 May 1975 Grenada (Operation Urgent Fury) 23 October 1983 This group is here so that those of us US Navy folks who participated in the evacuation of Saigon, aka Operation Frequent Wind, can amass and share thoughts, ides, and feelings about that "war. Unit awards, medals and ribbons, and information on applying for and obtaining your medals and ribbons. Otherwise you will lose what you have typed in. Operation JUST CAUSE (Panama). Copies of citations for unit awards you believe you are qualified to receive. Go To Top of Page Go To Issue Regulations for Other Medals and Badges <>>>
X"(h0 The carrier was destined for the Pacific Fleet. Harbor Defense Craft July 31, 1968 (Marine Corps Photo- Pfc. Naval Unit Commendation (NUC) Ribbon Synopsis: Awarded by the Secretary of the Navy to any unit of the Navy or Marine Corps which has distinguished itself by outstanding heroism is action against the enemy, but not sufficient to justify the award of the Presidential Unit Citation; or to any such unit which has distinguished itself by extremely meritorious service not involving combat but in support of military operations, rendering the unit outstanding compared to other units performing similar service. 1988 (http://www.amervets.com) 16907 Brighton Avenue Gardena CA 90247 1-310-532-0634, Military Personnel Database http://www.amervets.com/library.htmMilitary and Vet Info-Exchange/Discussion Groups http://www.amervets.com/share.htmPublic Information Office http://www.13105320634.com, Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message, Operation Frequent Wind and Vietnam Service Medal, You do not have permission to delete messages in this group, It is not the stories of war which are its valour but that America or any, You have never once in over 22 years shown a respect and after the expiry, http://www.amervets.com/replacement/vn.htm#isr, http://www.grapple369.com/a-brief-history-of-us-sdas-military-service-v2.pdf, http://www.grapple369.com/images/Medical_%20Caduceus.png, http://www.grapple369.com/jubilee2000.html, http://www.grapple369.com/images/Medical_Caduceus.png. Thank you for stopping by. When I checked the link above regarding the AFEM I noticed that it was also awarded for operation Eagle Pull. 1l~ G0 2 Per reference (b) above, paragraph 14 (Page 2-20) of said reference states: (1). A. The following three tables identify those awards that are campaign and expeditionary medals. 20 December 1989 - 31 January 1990. Qualifications as a Result of Service in the Republic of Vietnam Under Combat. everybodys screaming and the props hit and this prop went about six feet off the deck didnt hit anybody. Cadets of the U.S. Military Academy are eligible for the NDSM, during any of the inclusive periods listed above, upon completion of the swearing-in ceremonies as a cadet. Naval Advisory Group, RVN, 3. Wed make the pilots ditch the helos. "Its going to be cool because my kids can be there, my grandkids, he said. The Palm Desert Democratwill present those medals to Miller on Sunday during a Special Ceremony of Recognition before the start of the second day of theVeterans University event at California State Universitys Palm Desert campus. We hereby congratulate you on the receipt of your unit awards and other medals and ribbons you so richly deserve. 3 0 obj
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It may also be helpful to review the language of the citation to see if you think you participated in the action for which the unit award was granted. Did participants in Operation Frequent Wind qualify for Explore points of interest in the US Army section; awards, citations, index, roster and select information related to the mobile riverine force! 4 0 obj
b. RVN Gallantry Cross Unit Citation takes precedence over the RVN Civil Actions Unit Citation and is beneath all United States unit citations, the Philippine Republic Presidential Unit Citation, Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, and Vietnam Presidential Unit Citation. All Rights Reserved. Eligibility Requirements Established After 1 Oct 84. a. Vets Supply Line, 10650 County Road 81, Suite 131, Maple Grove, MN 55369, (612) 425-0911 Fax number (612) 425-2577 Order Line (800) 864-5062 The Vietnam Service Medal may be awarded posthumously. NSA DANANG and SAIGON %%EOF
17) Vietnam Ceasefire Campaign 30 March 1972 28 January 1973 Operation Frequent Wind concluded more than two decades of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. You can rest assured that you have a lot of brothers and sisters in this association who recognize and respect your contributions and thank you for a job well done! People were sleeping on the main deck and everything. (b) ELIGIBLE VIETNAM EVACUATION VETERAN- For purposes of this section, the term `eligible Vietnam evacuation veteran' means a member or former member of the Armed Forces who was awarded the Armed . Your loved ones and friends will appreciate your efforts in a new found way. Operation Frequent Wind - A South Vietnamese helicopter pilot and his family, safely aboard the USS Hancock, are escorted by a Marine Security Guard to the refugee area during an evacuation, Saigon, Viet Nam, April 29, 1975. The boundaries of the Vietnam combat zone for campaign participation credit (CPC) are as defined above. Wear gold frames with the Republic of Vietnam Meritorious Unit Citation of the Gallantry Cross and Civil Action with palm. !I4H:g,-?;c$mXm_,3=|ZO9=:r 6bVNGp\ O'n7TS2HqCN3fu$dJJ~YoHQ! IK8]%EJ!-b{P?w((mGE.'zRe^7G However, no Servicemember may be issued both medals for service in Vietnam. We use cookies to analyze website traffic and optimize your website experience. Those personnel who meet the criteria described above, and served with the following units, were established as being authorized the Small Craft Insignia: RIVFLOT ONE (RAS 9, 11, 13, 15) I go, 'Thats not the point. The Vietnam Civilian Service Award is an award of the United States Foreign Service. <>
NOTE: Prior to 1992, the Merchant Marine Vietnam Service Medal was a ribbon-only decoration. Awarded for active participation in ground or air combat during specifically listed military operations. NOTE: The following criteria were applicable to granting an Award for Valor: - Sustained superior performance while under threat of physical attack or harassment; or. That would have to be corrected before he'd beeligible to receive his medals. A Silver Star, 3/16 inch in diameter, is authorized for wear in place of five (5) Bronze Stars when a total of five (5) campaigns have been recognized. SECNAVINST 1650.1H Click HERE Then go to Page 7-5. -No person will be entitled to more than one award of the V. Service Medal. 5) Select your Ship/Unit from the list. Servicemembers who earned the AFEM for service in Vietnam between 1 July 1958 and 3 July 1965 may elect to receive the VSM instead of the AFEM. Total evacuation helicopter sorties from the US Defense Attach compound numbered 122. Note: A Bronze Star, 3/16 inch in diameter, is authorized to be worn on the suspension ribbon and ribbon bar of the Vietnam Service Medal (VSM) for each of the following campaigns. X. and were not on active duty before 1/28/73. Civilian service must have been on land, sea, or airspace of Vietnam from 1959-1975. Links to friends, affiliates and other sites you should visit! Military News and Information Editor (http://www.13105320634.com) The American War Library, Est. Quartermaster, 750 Long Beach Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90813, (800) 444-8643 This precludes wear of the Vietnamese Fourragere which represents additional unit awards of the RVN Gallantry Cross. Although the evacuation of South Vietnam had ended, the USAF still had to transport thousands of tons of cargo to refugee camps and move refugees from the Philippines to Guam. v.0beq!
(3) Accumulates required days service (consecutive or nonconsecutive) while participating as a regularly assigned air crewmember of an aircraft flying sorties into, out of, within, or over the area in direct support of the military operation. 13) Sanctuary Counteroffensive 1 May 30 June 1970 Not more than one Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation will be worn by any individual. RETIRED AND FORMER MARINES AFFECTED BY THIS LAW NEED TO SUBMIT THEIR REQUESTS TO THE NATIONAL PERSONNEL RECORDS CENTER (NPRC) BY FAX TO (314) 801-9195 OR BY MAIL TO: (4) Serve on TDY for 30 consecutive days or 60 nonconsecutive days in Vietnam or contiguous areas, except that time limit may be waived for personnel participating in actual combat operations. As hostile Khmer Rouge forces approached Phnom Pehn, the capitol of Cambodia, the urgency to protect and remove American, Allied and Cambodian personnel named on the Khmer Rouge Death List grew rapidly. commander of the vessel that he or she served in the combat zone. 3) Click on Query Unit Awards in the upper right hand corner An individual whose eligibility has been established in combat in any of the following listed operations, is authorized the award of the CAR. this award? The principal eligibility criterion is that the individual must have participated in a bona fide ground or surface combat fire fight or action during which he or she was under enemy fire AND his/her performance while under fire was satisfactory. The (2) RVN awards below are Ribbon Only awards The Medal is issued when citing an individual. Operation Frequent Wind On March 10, 1975, Communist forces attacked and routed South Vietnamese troops. It was carried out on 29-30 April 1975, during the last days of the Vietnam War. - William Shakespeare, Henry V, Navy Cross recipients, Distinguished Service Cross recipients, and Medal of Honor recipients from the Navy Mobile Riverine Force and Army 9th Infantry Division. While returning to Japan from Saigon, his unit was diverted to recapture the USS Mayaguez that had been seized by the Cambodians. In general, the process is fairly straight forward, although sometimes lengthy. Southeast Asia, from 1 March 1961 to 15 August 1973, (5). Strike Assault Boats (STABS) 24 October 1983 - 2 November 1983. Included below is a list of possible suppliers. The mass of humanity flooding the decks made it impossible to land more than one helicopter at a time, and as they landed and were offloaded, they had to push the choppers over the side. "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers, For he today that sheds his blood with me, shall be my brother." { 'Ar n~AlZ'^Q9|04b!p`]C>$h6om&V
>{M aADwJC4m8p'o/ Explore our catalog and purchase official MRFA gear here. From Albert's Peach Cobbler to an Irish Chicken Dinner, we have them all! Servicemembers who earned the AFEM for Operation FREQUENT WIND, between 29 and 30 April 1975, may elect to receive the VSM instead of the AFEM. . Veterans who discovered they haven't received what they rightfully earned during their long-ago-service shouldn't have to jump through so many hoops to correct the record. Only one award per operation is authorized. ", We went back (to Vietnam). The following amplifying remarks are furnished as guidance. (2) Is wounded or injured and requires medical evacuation from the AOE while participating in the operation, regardless of time. Members qualified for the AFEM by reason of service between 01Jul1958 and 03Jul1965 (inclusive) in an area for which the Vietnam Service medal (VSM) was subsequently authorized shall remain qualified for that medal. Southeast Asia, from 1 March 1961 to 15 August 1973 (5). Paul, This is from MarAdmin 218/04 (Awards Update), 4. The Medal of Freedom for meritorious achievements or meritorious service to the United States on or after December 7, 1941, in the war against an enemy outside the continental limits of the United States. The transmittal letter is usually folded and placed in a slot on the outside of the manila envelope with your return address showing. One bronze service star is authorized for each campaign under the following conditions: (1) Assigned or attached to and present for duty with a unit during the period in which it participated in combat. SECNAVINST 1650.1F, Dated 8 August 1991. Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (AFEM) - AUTHORIZED OPERATIONS The table below lists designated U.S. military operations that have been approved for award of the AFEM. Caption: Operation Frequent Wind, April 29, 1975 A Vietnamese Air Force HU-1 Huey Helicopter is deliberately ditched near USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19), as one of the ship's boats stands by to pick up. Eligible Units. Patrol Boat (PB, PBM, PBR, PCF) (c). endobj
`*^&"^n Dx"~ JMYGO4le,Wx0|Wz rY~:36fMCE-uXReov7zCIYiG Presidential Unit Citation (PUC) Ribbon Synopsis: Awarded in the name of the President of the United States to any unit of the Navy or Marine Corps for outstanding performance in action. This effort consisted of: 444 USAF/USMC helicopter sorties; 204 TACAIR sorties; 24 AH-1J (Cobra) combat escort sorties; 8 AC-130 gunship sorties; 5 EC-130 (ABCCC) sorties; 44 KC-135 tanker sorties; and 2 HC-130 search and rescue support sorties. It says campaign but it infers the entire Vietnam War. At the end of his career, he was manager of postal operations for the offices from Temecula to Calexico. A completed Form 180 request form. '#vv{!wA}'|t5T]4}(n OhD.7#
A$@GUwH6m:A;mn[tJ_[S;_VUZ$;!C"#DEds"F (2) Encounter during such participation foreign-armed opposition, or are otherwise placed, or have been placed, in such position that, in the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, hostile action by foreign armed forces were imminent even though it did not materialize. Box 27, Tomball, TX 77375, (281) 255-2161 A couple of words of caution: The Navy wears all unit ribbons on the left breast in a main ribbon cluster. The aircraft carrier USS HANCOCK CV-19, the third vessel of the United States Navy named in honor of the famed statesman, John Hancock, was launched on January 24, 1944, at the Bethlehem Steel Company in Quincy, MA. It will be important in this letter to reconstruct your time in country. Any such award shall be made in lieu of the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal awarded the individual for participation in Operation Frequent Wind. Authorization: Executive Order 9050, 6 February 1942. There were helicopters they blackened the sky - and we were offloading them.. HMM-263 lost a great Marine Bert McCauley. 10) Tet 69/Counteroffensive 23 February 8 June 1969 A full archive of past and present "River Currents" newsletters from your friends at MRFA. ;":Nk
8>N-V\}Uw:OWRMzkZzzK'[X>MJ'k OR go toTHIS website and do the same: To download this file to you hard drive: Open the file and click on FILE and then SAVE AS in your Browser toolbar. Can you imagine?. We were in shallow water and they couldnt keep pushing these helos over because we had nowhere to store them. Strike Assault Boat (STAB) It was a maddening process sending packets of information back and forth between the Navy and DOD. Personnel assigned to areas subjected to sustained mortar, missile, and artillery attacks who actively participate in retaliatory or offensive actions are eligible.
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