PART II - SECTION ECHO - REBUTTAL TO THE NIGEL BROOKS DEFAMATION,
LIES AND OUTRAGEOUS FRAUD IN RESPECT TO MY COMBAT DUTIES IN
VIETNAM
Nigel Brooks is Defrauding the Contents of My Military Records
(C) Copyright 2006 by DGVReiman, all rights reserved. This
article may be distributed or reproduced for any reason by anyone
provide proper author credits are provided.
If you have not read the previous proof that Nigel Brooks and his
cyberstalking gang members have used lies, outrageous
distortions, fraud, forgeries, false accusations and malicious
defamation to cyberstalk, fraudulently defame and unlawfully
harass me, please review the following URL's for proof of such
unethical tactics:
If you have already read these previous rebuttals, then skip down
to page 3, or where it says:
Start Section Echo.
The following URL contains Part I, of my rebuttal to Nigel Brooks
fraud, defamation and lies. In this section I proved irrefutable
proof from the courts, and from other posts that Nigel Brooks and
his gang not only falsely accused me of incredible defaming
issues (such as being a child molester, child porno on my
computer, wife beater, car thief, rapist of 12-year-old girls,
etc. ,) but also forged US Army regulations, forged FBI documents
and even posted private VA medical information about me for the
clear and unmistakable purpose of unlawful harassment,
defamation, and cyberstalking, The Nigel Brooks gang even
impersonated a General Officer (General Wickham) and impersonated
a Psychoanalyst (Dr. Ragge) in an incredible attempt to defame me
with more outright fraud. The Nigel Brooks gang even went so far
as to lie about my service, my decorations, my statements about
such matters, and "altered and forged" statements I had
previously posted for the purpose of fraudulent defamation and
harassment - posted maps to my house - and posted dozens of
threats of violence. All evidence is provided in the URL below of
these vile and incredibly unethical acts by the Nigel Brooks
cyberstalking gang.
http://tinyurl.com/f3nvl
In the following URL's I provide scanned copies of some of my
orders and discharge papers that prove irrefutable Nigel Brooks
and his gang members are lying and using outrageous defamation in
respect to various aspects of my military service.
SECTION DELTA-REBUTTAL TO THE NIGEL BROOKS DEFAMATION
SECTION ALPHA CAN BE FOUND AT THIS URL: (Nigel Brook's lies about
when Korean forces arrived in Vietnam and related defamation
based upon
that fraud).
http://tinyurl.com/mhsse
SECTION BRAVO CAN BE FOUND AT THIS URL: (Nigel Brooks lies about
101st
not at Cu Chi, and his lies and fraud about my MOS and duties in
Vietnam). Including Brook's OCS lies and fraud.
http://tinyurl.com/m3kn9
SECTION CHARLIE CAN BE FOUND AT THIS URL: Nigel Brooks lie that I
was
never a Platoon Sergeant, his own posts proving he is lying, and
OCS
lies and fraudulent misrepresentations.
http://tinyurl.com/msqv2
BS BROOKS "BUTTER BAR" AND "BAD DISCHARGE" FALSE ACCUSATIONS
AND OTHER LIES REBUTTED AND REFUTED
http://tinyurl.com/erukz List of lies and false accusations Nigel
Brooks and gang members posted about me so far, including the
claim
that I received a "bad discharge" from the US Army. (This does
not
include the latest false accusation that I "removed" some of
their
past posts from Google - which is not only an idiotic false
accusation
it is also hilarious).
http://tinyurl.com/mgvjl In this Post I debunk the incredible
Nigel
Brooks lies about me claiming I have a Purple Heart Medal, and
his bad
discharge claims as well.
http://tinyurl.com/oy3hw In this post I notify the NARA in St.
Louis
of Nigel Brook's claim that I have a "bad discharge" and I list
just "some" of the threats of violence and attack I have received
from the Nigel Brooks cyberstalking and unlawful harassment gang.
http://tinyurl.com/rgt4y In this post Nigel Brooks and some of
his
gang members repeat their libel that I received a bad discharge.
Keep
in mind that Nigel Brooks is making this fraudulent claim AFTER
he
received information about me via a FOIA from the US Army. BS
Brooks
claimed he was going to post the truth about what those records
contained, but in fact he has constantly lied and distorted the
information he received for the deliberate and obvious purpose of
defaming me, discrediting me and my book and service, and to
unlawfully
harass me. Which I am sure are not the reasons he gave to the US
Army
for requesting such information on me. In fact I am sure JAG
specially
told Mr. Brooks NOT to use the information he was provided by the
US Army to attempt to defame me with fraud and
misrepresentations, but
that is precisely what Nigel Brooks and his gang members are
doing.
The following scanned discharge orders directly answers the
vicious,
unfounded and malicious libel and fraud Nigel Brooks and his gang
members posted about my discharge from the US Army, and my MOS.
(Also
Note my 71H4L MOS and not the 71H40 MOS Nigel Brooks claims was
my
primary MOS).
http://tinyurl.com/mwf44 This URL contains a scanned copy of my
Discharge Orders from the US Army.
http://tinyurl.com/ejs9n Represents all of the last section Part
II in respect to the fraud, defamation, forgeries and outright
lies posted by Nigel Brooks and his cyberstalking gang members.
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Start Section Echo:
Part II, Rebuttal to Nigel Brooks lies about my combat service in
Vietnam.
Here is my copyrighted article that Nigel Brooks fraudulently
attempted to misrepresent:
WAR STORIES
ARTICLE #36 © Copyright 2002 by DGVReiman, all rights reserved.
ALERTS ARE DANGEROUS
These Green, Yellow, Orange and Red alerts dreamed up by someone
in our Government are very dangerous. Why? Let me tell you a
little story first:
When I was in Vietnam, we used Claymore mines often to defend our
positions. Claymore mines are mines that stand up on little
legs, look like a curved rectangle box, are filled with C-4 or
other explosives, and have anywhere from 60 to 150 steel balls
embedded in the face of the explosive. A Claymore is fired by
place a blasting cap or "det cap" into a little hole in the top
of the mine, that cap is attached a wire, and the wire is strung
back to our foxhole, or bunker line, or whatever position we wish
to defend. Our end of the wire is then attached to a hand
generator, and the mine is "command detonated" by squeezing the
hand generator. (I also used Claymores extensively in ambushes,
but that has nothing to do with this story.)
One other thing, Claymores fire the steel balls in a sweeping arc
in the direction of their front. There is a little backlash on
the back of the mine from the explosion, but the weapon is
designed to fire in a specific direction. (Imagine a giant
shotgun firing double 00 steel balls and you have the right image
of a Claymore.)
Claymores were used very effectively against the VC for some
time. But soon the VC learned a little trick in respect to
Claymores. Charlie (a name we used for the enemy) would sneak up
on the Claymores at night (the mines were always fairly far away
from our entrenched positions) and quietly turn them around
facing our positions. Then Charlie would make some noise, pop a
flare, or fire some rounds at us, and we would respond by
promptly blowing ourselves away with our own Claymores.
So, to counteract these sneaky tricks, we started to paint white
phosphoreus' stripes on the back of the Claymores, and that way
we would know whether they were facing the enemy or us. However,
Charlie then would sneak up on the Claymores, and paint a little
white stripe on the face of the Claymores, and then quickly turn
them around again.
So after blowing away some more of our own troops due to that
little trick, we started to place live grenades under the
Claymores (grenades with the pin out but the spoon is being held
down by the weight of the Claymore.) This worked for a while,
until Charlie realized that when were ready to leave we could no
longer just drag in our Claymores by their wires, we would need
to go out to the Claymores and reinsert the pin in the grenades
before we could harvest our Claymores.
So Charlie would mine the area around our Claymores with booby
traps, or he would simply wait and ambush us as we tried to
retrieve our Claymores.
Then we started to use listening devices planted around the
Claymores. The listening devices were so good they could detect
a Bird landing on the ground. The problem is that it rained a
lot in Vietnam, and these devices were worthless in the rain.
The point to this story is that our enemies are not stupid. As
we build better mouse traps you can be sure the mice will get
smarter, and sometimes the mice turn our own traps against us.
In the case of these damn alerts, if you were a terrorist, would
you attack when a Red alert was proclaimed or a Green alert?
Duh. Also, would you use some of your people as double agents to
try and keep the Americans jumpy and off-guard?
Our "alert" system has the unfortunate side effect of informing
the terrorists when we are off guard. (Green means please come
and kill us, and Red means stay low.) Moreover, we as citizens
can do very little to protect ourselves if we do not know where
the attack is coming from, or what is the intended target or
method of attack. Do we wear gas masks? Run for the hills?
Cower inside our basements? What the hell are we supposed to do
when these alerts are proclaimed?
What we should do is declare that we are in a state of war with
terrorists. Along with that general declaration by our
Government, we should be informed of the following:
1. When our national emergency system via Radio, T.V. and
Sirens sound, we should take the following action:
1. Evacuate tall buildings.
2. Uh, er, well . . .
So far that is all I have heard Governor Rich tell us to do even
during a Red alert.
We need some specific information from our Government in regards
to what to do if we are in the workplace, at home, driving a car
or riding mass transportation when a major alert is sounded.
Moreover, we do not need "baby" alerts. They are a nuisance and
counterproductive. We already know we are at war, and we already
know we should keep our eyes open for terrorists and suspicious
activities. But we do not need to use some type of useless
warning system that the enemy can manipulate and turn against us.
I realize these public alerts are meant more to cover the butts
of the politicians that invented them than to help the public.
Nevertheless, if our Government has some information that a
terrorist attack is likely, then that information should be
shared with only those people that can do something to prevent it
or arrest the terrorists before they do it, or catch them in the
act with a trap, such as the Police or the Military. However,
if our Government believes that such an attack is imminent or
extremely likely and cannot be prevented, then a full National
Emergency alert should be sounded, and specific instructions on
what citizens should do in the above four categories included in
the alert notice.
I have some suggestions:
1. If you are in your workplace, pray and continue working.
2. IF you are driving in your car, pray and continue driving.
3. If you are riding mass transportation. Pray and continue
riding.
4. If you are at home, stay at home and pray.
There really isn't much you can do except pray is there? So if
that is all you can do, then why are they telling you and the
little kids and frightened people that they are about to get
killed by terrorists almost on a biweekly basis?
If we start using four levels of alert stages, then haven't the
terrorists won? That is, haven't they made us afraid almost all
of the time? Also can't they use those alert stages to catch us
off-guard again? Also, how can ever set traps for the terrorists
and thereby capture or eliminate them when they know exactly when
we are specifically looking for them?
Doug Grant (Tm)
Here is Nigel Brooks lie # 36 which he responded to the following
excerpt of the article above clearly out of context:
BS Brooks took the following excerpt out of the context of the
story above:
(I also used Claymores extensively in ambushes, but that has
nothing to do with this story)
Then BS Brooks responded with a statement fraudulently stating
that my MOS was such that the US Army would never allow me to
participate in combat in Vietnam. Of course anyone that was ever
in Vietnam would immediately know different, but Nigel Brooks is
a fraud and smear merchant, and he is counting on the lack of
knowledge of most people about such issues to further his
outrageous defamation, libel, unlawful harassment that is
deliberately designed to discredit me, defame me, and cast my
military service in a false light.
Here is precisely what Nigel Brooks said about my statement
above:
Here is Nigel Brooks reply to the above quip:
From: "Nigel Brooks" <nbro...@msn.com>
Newsgroups: alt.war.vietnam
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 21:17:14 -0500
Lines: 789
Message-ID: <4dsfi4F1btnu...@individual.net>
"The writer was a SSG E-6 with an MOS of 71H40 (Personnel NCO)
assigned to Co D, 1/27th Infantry Regiment (Wolfhounds) 25th
Infantry Division. At Can Tho - the writer held the same MOS and
rank and was assigned to the 51st Maintenance Company (Lt.) The
writers records indicate that the positions he held in Vietnam
were administrative in nature. His primary and Duty MOS as
reflected on his DA form 20 at both duty stations is that of
71H40 Pers Staff NCO.
Nigel Brooks
Refutation of Nigel Brooks Lies
Nigel Brooks lies so much, and presents so many fraudulent
misrepresentations about my records and military records in
general, it is hard to even know where to start in respect to
refuting his fraud and outrageous denigration of all men that
experienced combat in Vietnam that did not have an infantryman's
MOS.
But I will start with the US Army's clear refutation of Nigel
Brooks fraudulent and ridiculous claims that anyone with a 71H40
MOS in Vietnam never did anything but "administration."
In fact here is the official stated policy of the US Army in
respect to all personnel (regardless of MOS) assigned to combat
areas: (See entire web site at the tinyurl below).
From
Rod Powers
,Your Guide to U.S. Military.
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"It is Army policy that assignment to combat or duty in a
hostile-fire or areas must be shared equitably by all similarly
qualified Soldiers."
http://tinyurl.com/p7psw
The above official US Army policy says it all. Infantrymen in
Vietnam had specific combat duties, and so did all the rest of
the men without an infantryman MOS's if they were assigned to a
hostile fire area, and I assure you that the 25th Infantry
Division in Vietnam, and Can Tho when I was there, and the other
places I traveled to in Vietnam were ALL "hostile fire" areas.
Brooks also lied about my assignment to the 51st Maintenance
Company as the above scanned orders clearly prove - and I was
also assigned to "hostile fire areas" in Can Tho, Vietnam. So
even the "official policy" of the United States Army clearly and
irrefutably proves Nigel Brooks is lying and fraudulently
misrepresenting my duties in Vietnam. But that is not all Nigel
Brooks is doing here.
He is deliberately denigrating the service of anyone without an
infantryman's MOS that served in Vietnam by claiming their duties
were all "administrative in nature." That BS Brooks lie flies in
the face of many men that not only served in combat, but were
also awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor while they held MOS's
that were not that of an infantryman, or were performing combat
duties that I, and others with the same MOS as I, performed every
single day in Vietnam.
Nigel Brooks is Defrauding the Contents of my Military Records
and He is Using his FOIA to Perpetrate Fraud, Defamation,
Unlawful Harassment, Cyberstalking and Malicious Libel
I put my life on the line dozens of times in Vietnam (and in
Korea) and in Central South America after I left the Army and was
working for PCA , just like everyone else, and for smear
merchants and "fake federal agents" like Nigel Brooks to
fraudulently claim and imply that my DA form 20 will list and
state every combat mission I was ever on is not only completely
fraudulent, a glaring lie, it is also an outrageous one at that.
Nigel Brooks constantly uses phrases like " There is no
indication in the released records that - blah blah blah." But
here are the real facts about those so-called "released records:"
Nigel Brooks filed a FOIA request on me to the NARA in St. Louis
and received a copy of my DA form 20, some unit assignement
orders and promotions, a redacted copy of my DD 214 - and that is
it. Anyone that ever served in the US Military knows that combat
patrols and missions ARE NOT listed on DA form 20's nor are
subject to any official written orders. ALL Men regardless of MOS
in a hostile fire area pull standard hostile fire duties almost
every day of their lives, all are equal, none are given "special
privileges" to avoid those duties.
Nigel Brooks knows, I know and anyone in the US Army knows that
no such combat duties, missions nor patrols are EVER listed in
the records he received from his FOIA request on me.
So why would he then say " There is no indication in the released
records that - blah blah blah?" Nigel Brooks says that to
deceive, misrepresent facts, lie, and place anything he wants in
a false light. By making such claims he then can claim "the
writers records do not indicate he did what he is claiming." But
by not revealing that the records in his possession would NEVER
reveal what the writer was claiming regardless, he is clearly,
deliberately, and with malice defaming and denigrating my
character and my service to my country and defrauding the
contents of my miltiary records. That is Nigel Brook's clear and
unmistakable purpose for all of his defaming attacks on me, and
clearly his purpose is to generate or cause his gang members to
generate multiple web sites for the purpose of repeating his
lies, fraud, forgeries, falsehoods, and general smears and
defamation.
The above classic Nigel Brook's "no records show" con game is a
common tactic for smear and fraud merchants. In a court of law
that claim is not even admissible as it is known defamation
without evidence and is clearly designed to place a person in a
false light. Brooks uses his FOIA request on people to further
his smear campaigns, and when he filed that FOIA request on me I
predicted he would do precisely what he is doing - holding back
all evidence that proves him a complete and total liar and smear
merchant, while using and referencing records that do not contain
any information about any issue he fraudulently claims I am lying
about.
First he lies and claims that such military records do contain
information about my combat duties, then he claims those same
records do not confirm any combat duties. He uses his first fraud
to prove his second fraud! This is classic con man and smear
merchant tactics.
The above "the records do not indicate" con man jargon and smear
merchant tactics might work on the Nigel Brooks gang and other
low-lifes, but that smear merchant lying tactic is obvious to
anyone with an impartial mind.
In all of Nigel Brook's and his gang's defamation and lies about
me and others you will constantly see "there is no indication in
the released records which would substantiate - blah blah." But
then we all know BS Brooks is hiding the fact that the meager
records he has received from a FOIA request would NEVER provide
any information regarding the topic he is referencing. Nigel
Brooks lies by omission, deceit, fraud, and falsely presents an
impression that if it does not reflect in the records in his
possession then it could have never happened - and that
misrepresentation and fraud is a bald face, smear merchant, con
man, lie, and anyone that was ever in the US Military knows
better. Once again, combat patrols and missions are NOT listed on
DA form 20's nor on DD 214's - yet the official policy of the US
Army is that all NCO's must perform those duties in a hostile
fire area. So not only is Nigel Brooks lying about what military
records reflect or contain, he is clearly lying and fraudulently
misrepresenting the official policy of the United States Army as
well!
My records do however, reflect that I was assigned to a combat
unit in a hostile fire area, and that unit did not have any
positions nor slots for any Personnel Sergeants nor any
administrative duties I could perform. My records also reflect
that I was awarded the Tet offensive, and counteroffensives
bronze Campaign stars, and that my efficiency rating from that
period and said unit was "excellent." So clearly, once again
Nigel Brooks has been caught defrauding the contents of my
records when he claims they do not confirm any combat duties.
Nigel Brooks is Defaming all That Served in Vietnam Without an
Infantryman's MOS
Could this Brooks character stoop to any lower depths?
Unbelievably yes. In his zeal to defame me, he also had to defame
all other NCO's and soldiers in Vietnam that performed combat
duties but did not have an infantryman's MOS. Brooks even defamed
Congressional Medal of Honor Winners by claiming the duties they
were performing when they received that medal "did not qualify as
combat duties."
Moreover, my FOIA request on Nigel Brooks revealed some startling
information:
NARA Personnel Office In St. Louis never heard of a "Nigel
Brooks"
Note that Nigel Brooks stated that his entire experience in the
US Army consisted of a two-year draftee non-combat area with one
tour in Vietnam in 1967. But the NARA in St. Louis, Mo, stated
they could not find any "Nigel Brooks" or "Nigel Brook" that ever
served in ANY US Military service. I asked Nigel Brooks to
provide more information about his claimed military service, such
as his former service number, and he refused. Why would he refuse
such a request?
Regardless, even if we take Mr. Brook's claims of a two-year
draftee experience in the US Army, that hardly qualifies him as
any kind of "expert" on what types of duties various MOS's
performed in Vietnam.
So clearly, Nigel Brooks is deliberately using fraud and outright
false statements about my military service and military records
for the obvious purpose of unlawful harassment, cyberstalking,
defamation so as to cause me and my family undue distress and
emotional harm, not to mention discredit me in general which
reflects detrimentally on my articles, books and other
publications, which I believe is the Nigel Brook's gang's
clandestine purpose for their obvious defamation campaign against
me.
Here is additional proof that Nigel Brooks and his gang are lying
about my "all administrative" duties in Vietnam:
First note that Nigel Brooks completely contradicted himself
about my "exclusive administrative" duties in his own following
post:
"You might be interested to know that just about everyone in a
"Support" position as yourself was required to pull extra duty
after completing their regular administrative duties. That extra
duty included reaction force, manning bunkers, and even police
call. "
Nigel Brooks
Doug Says: So incredibly now Brooks is *admitting* that I
participated in a reaction force and that I pulled patrols and
guard duty on a bunker line during the Tet offensive while I was
serving with the 25th Infantry Division and when I was in Can
Tho! It appears that ol Brooks has been caught lying by some
other people in the know, so now he is backpedaling and claiming
what I said was true - but he now trying to imply that he was the
one that said it in the first place! Read the following about
what else Brooks said about my duties, in his lie #37 in his now
defunct web sites:
To a question posed to me I reply with the following:
"Question: Did you kill anyone?
Answer: "As many VC and NVA as I could. (1803 ESTIMATED BC in 2.5
tours with only 3 wounded in my team). It is too bad however that
we did not kill more."
Brooks Said:
"The writer has since explained his use of the term "team" was in
relation to the all those units in which he served while in
Vietnam. During the period February through July 1968, the writer
was assigned to Company D, 1/27th Infantry Regiment, 25th
Infantry Division. He subsequently was assigned to the 51st
Maintenance company in Can Tho. The Combat Area Current Casualty
file (CACCF and Coffeit Data Base lists 7 members of Co D, 1st of
the 27th Infantry who were killed in action during the time that
the writer was assigned to that unit. The CACCF and Coffelt Data
Base also lists 1 person with the 51st Maintenance company who
was a casualty in January 1968, on full month prior to the writer
arriving in Vietnam."
Nigel Brooks
Brooks also quoted me as saying in one post (out of context as
usual):
Further the writer's post of December 23, 2005 directly
contradicts his claim of being in units which only had 3
wounded."
The very first item to mention about Nigel Brook's lies in
respect to this issue is to note how many times he and his gang
members forged what I said into something completely different
from what I actually said.
Section G Part One: BS BROOKS GANG CLEARLY LIES AND FORGES MY
1803 UNIT BODY COUNT QUIP - THEN SENDS THEIR FORGERY TO MANY
DIFFERENT NEWSGROUPS AND TO MEMBERS OF MY FORMER MILITARY UNITS
SO AS TO DEFAME ME AND CAUSE ME EMOTIONAL HARM AND DISTRESS.
1.
http://tinyurl.com/ggt36 Multiple and outrageous lies and
forgeries defaming me on this issue from the BS Brooks gang about
my 1803 unit Body count quip.
2.
http://tinyurl.com/h2dcz In this URL gang member Dai Uy is caught
lying not less than nine times about my previous comments. He
altered the context of what I had written, forged new words into
my statements, and deleted key words from several quips posted by
my group, and even lied about my linguist MOS not being reflected
on my DD 214.
http://tinyurl.com/lrmud Gang member Dai Uy is caught lying about
his claims that Soldiers without medals for valor "never saw
combat" in Vietnam. Dai Uy seems to want to dishonor and
constantly belittle men that fought in Vietnam but did not pander
for medals like I believe he did.
http://tinyurl.com/po8k4 Gang member Dai Uy is caught lying about
his claims that I was not a Platoon Sergeant in Vietnam. Not only
did gang member Dai Uy lie about this issue, he also lied and
claimed I was never a SFC E-7 in Vietnam.
DAI UY GANG MEMBER DISHONORS AND BELITTLES OUR MISSING POWS AND
MIA AND THEIR FAMILIES
http://tinyurl.com/ma6et In this post Dai Uy is caught lying when
he claimed "there was no evidence that the Communists in
Vietnam/Laos/Cambodia held back some of our POW.'s after the
Vietnam war." (Or words to that effect). Once he was proved a
liar in this respect he then tried to claim he never made that
preposterous and belittling claim - but the google search proved
he did. It appears to me that for some strange reason this Dai Uy
character wants to always protect the Vietnamese communists. He
constantly belittled my POW posts, and he stated my claims that
the Vietnamese held back some of our POW's and MIA's were
completely false, and Dai Uy even posted where he believed ALL
such claims were lies and nonsense.
http://tinyurl.com/zt9ur In this post the Dai Uy gang member is
caught lying in respect to his claims that "I never served in
Vietnam." This false claim and other equally false claims are
typical of the Dai Uy gang member. Amazingly, in this post he
also admits he made such false claims about me without any
evidence whatsoever.
As the above URL's prove, the Nigel Brooks gang changed what I
said above about all of my units achieving a 1803 ESTIMATED BC
during my 2.5 tours, into this forgery "Doug Reiman said he
personally killed 1803 confirmed VC and NVA in Vietnam" - and
"Doug Reiman confirmed 1803 BC all by himself."
Then once the gang completely forged what I actually said, they
expounded on their forgeries, convinced others that I actually
posted their forgeries, and thereby enlisted innocent people to
join their smear campaign against me. I have reason to believe
that Nigel Brooks and some of his gang members actually sent
their forgeries and lies to former members of my units and asked
them to respond to their lies. That is how con men and smear
merchants work - they lie, compound the lie, spread the lie, and
then ask people to respond to their own forgeries they know they
are fraudulently attributing to their smear victim.
What an incredible and obvious serial liar and distorter of facts
this smear merchant Brooks and many of his gang members have
turned out to be It is interesting to watch Brooks and his gang
members twist in the wind and whine and cry as I expose their
outrageous lies (apparently no one took the time to expose Brook's
incredible lies in the past). But the idiot Brooks does not even
know that SFC E-7's do not pull Police Call, they pull NCO IC of
such duties. Not only has Brooks admitted he lied when he claimed
ALL of my duties in Vietnam were "administrative" then
contradicted himself in his own post above, Brooks is also
clearly an idiot when it come to the duties of US Army personnel
Note that Brooks is now claiming, out of the other side of his
mouth, that a reactionary force and patrols and such are "all
administrative duties." Does Brooks actually expect men that
really did serve in Vietnam to believe such lies and nonsense?
Note also that about 90% of the US Army personnel that were
killed or wounded in the Can Tho attack in January 1969 were
operating in a "reactionary force" or were on guard duty at that
time. And some of those men were under my general command ( I
watched the attack from the top of the Melton Hotel and we were
under alert and I had to stay to help control the defense of the
Hotel) - but according to Nigel Brooks, none of those men that
died or were wounded during that attack were ever in combat. I
guess that is news to their families.
Also note that when Sp4 John Pate was forming for a reactionary
force patrol that I also was in during May 1968 at Cu Chi, and
was killed in a rocket/mortar attack, according to Brooks he also
was "never in combat?"
Also, note when two men of my squad (Sp4 Nelson and PFC Olson)
were wounded when I was leading them on patrol while in the 25th
Infantry Division, Olsen severely enough to be med evacuated - on
a night ambush patrol - according to Brooks neither of those men
were in combat either. That is certainly news to me and those two
men as well. (They both received Purple Heart Medals for that
action that night and obviously the US Army thought they were in
"combat" and if they were in "combat" and I was leading them -
and I was - how about me - was I also in combat? Of course).
Also note when my hootch in the 25th Infantry was so riddled with
shrapnel I had to order a new door to be built in it so we could
even get in and out - Brooks claims that I and none of those men
that were in that hootch the nights it was hit by multiple rocket
and mortar fire were never in combat. Sure is news to us and the
LT that finally authorized the new door.
When I chased a VC down a trench and into a side hole, and fired
my weapon into the hole, and it jammed, and then heard Vietnamese
voices talking about that jam, my ***** certainly thought it
was in combat that night.
When I went on all those patrols, interdiction, ambush, recon
patrols and other types of similar duties during the Tet
offensive and counteroffensive months, and encountered the enemy,
and when I went on convoy security duty later out of Can Tho and
also encountered the enemy, and when I worked with other combat
units and performed my regular combat company duties, according
to BS Brooks and his gang none of those duties count as "combat
duty?" Also news to me.
Also note below all of the men that earned CMH medals during all
volunteer force patrols, reactionary force participation, guard
duty, and such. But according to Mr. Brooks and his gang NONE of
those men were ever in combat!
As anyone that ever spent any time in a hostile fire area will
tell you, ALL of the NCO's, regardless of MOS, are required to
pull their equal share of combat duties. ALL NCO's and officers
perform some administrative duties, but they also are required to
pull their company duties as well as their MOS and section
duties. And in a hostile fire area, most of those company duties
are combat related. I know that, all GI's that were in Vietnam
know that, but for some reason Nigel Brooks did not know that NCO's
and all US Army Personnel are required to pull company duties
outside of their MOS. Yet Brooks admits that very fact above
which clearly contradicts all of his lies and outrageous
statements he has previously made on his web sites about my
duties in Vietnam.
What happened was Brooks wrote his lies on his web site, and when
he claimed that I was the most privileged NCO in the history of
the US Army as I was in a hostile fire area yet never had to pull
any combat duties, just about everyone that read his fraud and
nonsense told Brooks he was a liar. Ergo, Brooks had to admit
reactionary force participation, guard duty, patrols and such
were "regular duties for me and others with non infantryman's
MOS."
Here is Brook's admission that he lied on his web sites. (Note
that Brooks even went back to one of his web sites and secretly
changed one of his lies about this issue as soon as I proved he
was lying about me not being in combat in Vietnam. And when I
pointed this out to Brooks he replied that he can "change his web
site anytime he wants." So note that whenever Brook's lies and
smears are proved as such, he will "modify" his lies and smears
so he does not look like the smear merchant and defamer we all
know he is).
I should also mention that ANYONE that defended a position in
Vietnam would know about and use claymore mines, trips wires,
flares, and know that claymores were often used in ambushes along
with listening devices. Moreover, any NCO leading men on patrol
would know how to call in Artillery support, Air support, and
would know how to use his knife, set trip wires and place
claymores, and would certainly know how to assign different men
on patrol to various patrol duties. But for some reason Nigel
Brooks either did not know those facts, or he is just lying so as
to defame me with more lies and fraudulent and false accusations
and implications.
http://tinyurl.com/rgt4y This URL proves Brooks contradicted his
claims about all of my duties being Administrative in Vietnam:
The following post proves that what Brook's claims does not
qualify for combat, such as "reactionary force participation,
perimeter guard and security, bunker guard, and all of the
patrols and tactics associated with those duties in a hostile
fire area, is very much combat, and many a man has received the
Congressional Medal of Honor while participating in those very
duties .
BS BROOKS NO COMBAT LIE EXPOSED
© Copyright 2006 by DGVReiman, all rights reserved.
This is my defense and rebuttal of BS Brooks first lie he posted
about me on his web site. The rest of his lies will be addressed
item by item later.
Brook's lie about nobody in the Wolfhounds ever heard of
reactionary force platoons, and that the duties' Brooks admitted
I performed in Vietnam were not "combat" duties, are hereby
refuted and proved a complete and total fraud.
Summary of Facts:
As the URL below and my entries from the CMH listings clearly
prove - thirty-eight CMH's were awarded to individuals that were
performing precisely the same type of combat duty as I performed
in Vietnam - and these are the precise duties that BS Brooks, Dai
Uy, and Sock Puppet (Big Bear) said were NOT combat duties! Note
all US Military branches describe the basic condition to award
the CMH as: "
"For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk
of his life above and beyond the call of duty."
Obviously, ALL of the armed services believe the combat duties
that BS Brooks has already admitted that I performed in Vietnam
were combat duties - note the "in action" requirement for the
award of the CMH above. "In action" means "combat." Contrary to
BS Brooks, all branches of the US uniformed services state
clearly below in their respect CMH awards that reactionary force
duty is combat, security platoon duty is combat, Guard duty is
combat, reconnaissance patrols are combat, perimeter guard duty
is combat, door gunner duty is combat, convoy guard duty is
combat. These are all just some of the duties I performed in
Vietnam.
I believe BS Brooks is willing to denigrate and steal the honor
of every Vietnam Veteran that ever served in combat in Vietnam
performing the same duties I performed simply to cover his lie
when he and Psycho Dai Uy Uy fraudulently claimed "I never served
in combat in Vietnam." It appears this smear merchant gang will
go to any length, sink to any level, so as to hide the fact they
have been caught lying and smearing, and using their lies, false
accusations and distortions as a means to cyberstalk me for
months.
I believe Brooks does not care how ridiculous his claims are, nor
how fraudulent they clearly are, he just knows that he must cover
his pathetic lying ***** and hide his clear and unmistakable lies
from those he regularly deceives. I also believe Brooks will go
so far as to denigrate and steal the honor of every Vietnam
veteran that fought the enemy in Vietnam but did so in while
performing the duties BS Brooks has claimed do NOT qualify for
combat, or that fought in Vietnam without an infantryman's MOS.
Brooks and Mr. Uy Uy clearly are willing the steal the honor of
all such Vietnam Vets just so they can hide the fact they lied
about me not ever being in Combat in Vietnam. I really did not
think that fellow veterans could be that unethical, or sink that
low, that is until I ran into BS Brooks , Psycho Dai and their
sock puppets and gang members.
BS Brooks and Mr. Uy Uy's claims that such duties as I performed
in Vietnam do not represent combat flies in the face, and
contradict every other expert on Vietnam, and further, steal and
besmirch the honor of all those men that fought, and/or died or
were wounded while performing such duties as reactionary force
duty, security force duty, guard duty, convoy duty, and
reconnaissance patrols.
(Note: Before the BS Brooks smear merchant gang starts distorting
this post, I want to make it absolutely clear that I am not
claiming that I won the CMH, or was in any way entitled to that
medal. That is NOT my point of this post. The point is that not
less than 38 men that were performing the same duties that I
performed in Vietnam that BS Brooks says do not "qualify as
combat duties" won the CMH by demonstrating " conspicuous
gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above
and beyond the call of duty." Clearly, ALL branches of the US
Military believe the duties I performed constituted "action
against the enemy" or it would have been impossible for these 38
men to be awarded the CMH for their bravery while performing the
same combat duties as I performed.
When you read below the heroics of these brave men, you will find
that Reactionary force duty, security force duty, Guard duty,
Bunker line Sergeant of the Guard, Perimeter Guard,
reconnaissance patrols, convoy guard duty, etc. which are just
some of the combat duties I performed in Vietnam and that BS
Brooks has admitted I performed, DO qualify as combat duties in
all respects.
Out of the approximate 240 CMH's awarded in Vietnam (last update
2004) - more than 16% were awarded for the precise same type of
duties I performed in Vietnam and that BS Brooks and his sock
puppets claim does not qualify as combat duties, and one gang
member also claimed represented "REMF" duties. Yet the US Armed
Forces during the Vietnam war awarded not less than 38
Congressional Medals of Honor to men that at the time of their
heroic act above and beyond were performing the precise same
duties as I performed, and the same duties as BS Brooks and Sock
Puppets claim "do NOT qualify as combat." In fact, BS Brooks and
a Wolfhound sock puppet referred to those combat duties as "Rear
Echelon Mother Fucker" duties - I suspect that is big news to the
families of all those men that received the CMH for those "Rear
Echelon Mother Fucker" duties.
As just one glaring hypocritical example of the Nigel Brooks
ludicrous claims about what qualifies for combat, the Wolfhound
ringer that BS Brooks produced by the name of Big Bear, claimed
(1) that he had never killed any enemy that he knew of, and (2)
that he saw many of his comrades get killed or wounded - but
later his own CO said he had lost only a single man (KIA) during
his entire one year of command of Big Bear's unit! So obviously,
Big Bear was caught in mid bullshita - and of course ol Uy Uy and
BS Brooks never said a word about that glaring lie. Yet BS Brooks
and Psycho Dai also are claiming that because Big Bear had an
infantryman's MOS, and performed infantryman duties, (without
ever killing any enemy nor losing more than a single man during
his entire 12 month tour) he was in combat. Yet according to
Brooks and Big Bear the 38 men that received the CMH while
performing the same duty's I performed in Vietnam were REMF's,
not in real combat, but Big Bear was in combat just because he
had an infantryman's MOS.
Can anything be more ridiculous that BS Brooks and his sock
puppets claims?
I guess next BS Brooks will want to contact all of the families
of these men that earned the CMH while performing the duties BS
Brooks says do not represent combat, and inform them that their
hero was really a "Rear Echelon Mother Fucker" and his bravery
was not real because it did not occur in real combat. I actually
believe BS Brooks would go that far to try and cover up his lies
about me and others in this regard. It appears to me the man and
his chief goons are clearly very sick puppies.
Also, note that BS Brooks tried to lie about my MOS, and each
time I even mentioned some of my combat duties' BS Brooks and
sock puppets et al would howl, bark and yelp that I held a
primary MOS of 71H40 while in Vietnam. But BS Brooks is so stupid
he could not even get that MOS right. Actually, my MOS was a
71H4L - as my DD 214 (block #23 Speciality number and title)
clearly shows. BS Brooks also hides the fact that I was a former
Marine, I held an infantryman's MOS for years, I almost completed
Infantry OCS (left due to an emergency leave) and I completed the
25th Infantry Division's FULL AND COMPLETE (TWO WEEK COURSE) RVN
Jungle Warfare Training course, (which is also stated on my DD
214 block #25) and I helped the RVN training instructors process
and train some of the new trainees for one week as all new
graduates from that course were asked to do). During that period
I was assigned to the 1/27th Infantry - which I assure you DOES
NOT have any personnel offices in which a Personnel Sergeant can
perform such duties - yet BS Brooks lied and said I was assigned
to that unit as a "Personnel Sergeant" and that lie is more than
obvious simply because that unit does not have ANY "Personnel
Sergeants." . (Note that I was used from time to time as a
linguist - which is what the "L" at the end of my MOS depicts My
DLPT scores were "3" for German and French, and "2" For Korean,
and "2" for Vietnamese. My excellent knowledge French helped
quite a bit in Vietnam).
No doubt goofy BS Brooks will now claim he did not receive a copy
of my DLPT test scores, and all of my scores were not entered on
my DA fm. 20, but will "fail to mention" those tests are not
listed simply because there are no blocks on a DA form 20 for
such information to be entered. Moreover, the results of DLPT's
are provided to the Serviceman and are held in the EM's records
for only two years unless the EM takes a refresher DLPT test in
the languages he wants to use. If he does not take the refresher,
then the DLPT scores are removed from his records. But once a
serviceman has been awarded the Linguist suffix on his MOS that
"designation" of a Linguist is permanent, (as long as he keeps
testing in at least one foreign language) and that designation is
entered on a serviceman's DD 214 in block #23 when he is
discharged. And on my DD 214, block #23 the MOS designation of
"71H4L" clearly is stated - so much for BS Brooks deceptions what
my true MOS really was.
BS Brooks also hides the fact that when I arrived in the 25th
Infantry Division I was immediately solicited via a letter from
the Commander (or his Adjutant I do not remember which) to
volunteer for temporary combat duty. That letter urging infantry
qualified personnel that did not hold primary infantryman MOS's
to volunteer for combat is a mater of record, and that letter was
especially circulated during the 1968 Tet offensive and counter
offensive months (February through August 1968) - yet that
solicitation for volunteers to join reactionary forces and
security force platoons was not new, and it had been issued every
year the 25th Infantry Division had arrived in Vietnam. Many had
served in that force long before I arrived in Vietnam, and one
even received the CMH while serving in that volunteer force, as I
will prove below.
In the CMH list there are not less than 21 awards given to men
that were performing combat duties well outside of their primary
MOS - and there are 38 awards provided to "volunteers" performing
duties they were not required by their MOS to perform.
So much for the BS Brooks claim that all soldiers in Vietnam
never performed any combat duties outside of their primary MOS.
In fact a full one third of all NCO's in Vietnam without
infantrymen's MOS performed *extensive* combat duties, and at
least 99% of all NCO's assigned to the 25th Infantry Division
during the 1968 Tet Offensive months performed *extensive* combat
duties regardless of whether they had an infantryman's MOS or
not.
That means more than 8.75% of all Vietnam CMH awards were given
to men that were performing combat duties outside of the MOS -
and more than 15.80% Vietnam soldiers were given CMH decorations
that had volunteered for combat duty which they were not required
to perform!
I should also mention that 46% of all US Army KIA casualties
during the Vietnam war came from MOS's OUTSIDE the combat Arms
MOS's of 11B 11C etc. That is almost HALF of all US Army KIA's in
the Vietnam war! Obviously, a soldier's MOS had little to do with
his exposure to danger in the Vietnam war during the hot periods
of that war.
I should also mention that approximately 70% of all US KIA's in
Vietnam were *volunteers! *
http://tinyurl.com/lq8nx (Stats about the Vietnam war).
If you want to hear some independent confirmation of how men's
duties differed from their primary MOS's see some of the
following URL's.
http://tinyurl.com/p37et (This one is about a company clerk that
was forced to pull continuous combat duty during the 1968 Tet
Offensive before he was finally returned to his primary MOS
duties.) Tet of 1968 represented a completely different
experience for anyone that went through it compared to soldiers
that came later or before that event. What a soldier might see
happening in Vietnam in 1969 would be completely different from
what actually happened in January thru August of 1968 in the 25th
Infantry Division.
http://tinyurl.com/fstu8 Combat duties outside of MOS.
http://tinyurl.com/emnyz Combat duties outside of MOS.
http://tinyurl.com/f7urv Combat duties outside of MOS.
http://tinyurl.com/h7j Combat duties outside of MOS.
http://tinyurl.com/kcp5g Combat duties outside of MOS.
http://tinyurl.com/6kmhn Combat duties outside of MOS
"At 0730 hours on April 2, 1966, the battalion units moved along
assigned routes to predetermined objective areas. Troop A, ¾
Cavalry was attached to the 1/5th(M) and Company C 1/5th(M) was
OPCON to the 1/69th Armor. Company C had 2 APCs bog down and
during the extrication process one Bobcat was shot and killed.
Upon moving to a secondary objective, Company A had an APC
destroyed by a command detonated 175mm Arty round at 1730 hours.
A second was damaged by another mine. The 1st APC was flipped
over onto its top and resulted in 4 Bobcats killed and 4 wounded.
Two Vietnamese National Policemen were also wounded. Three
Bobcats were wounded on the 2nd APC. One of the men described it
as one hectic evening and night. "The command detonated mine blew
the track up and over onto its back, killing four and seriously
wounding others. When I got there the track commander, who was
seriously wounded, was determined to 'call in my own damn dust
off.' Due to enemy contact we had to strip the track, evac the
wounded and pull back for the night. We were in contact all night
long ¼ then recovered the A5 in the am ... finding our cook, KIA,
beneath the track."
Doug Says: According to BS Brooks and Mr. Uy Uy, the "Cook" KIA
mentioned above was never in combat because although he was
engaged with the enemy in a firefight that cost him his life, yet
because he had a primary MOS of "Cook" the life he gave for his
country did not qualify as a life given in "combat." Can anything
be more ridiculous than such obviously fraudulent claims from the
BS Brooks gang?
Nigel Brook's claim that US Army personnel NEVER perform duties
outside of their primary MOS in a hostile fire area is not only
completely fraudulent, but idiotic as well and flies in the face
of the above proved US Army policy.
Here is much more proof Nigel Brooks is a lying smear merchant:
Name Dailey, Gerald Lee Rank Spec. 4 Service Number RA 12 690 281
Home Address 7432 East Main Street, Lima, New York Born Nov. 9,
1946, San Francisco, California Parents Mr. & Mrs. Richard Olson,
1 Vantage Dr., Pittsford, NY (foster parents) Spouse Mrs. Deborah
Dailey, 7432 East Main St., Lima, NY Attended Lima Free School
Entered Service March 1963, Rochester, NY Unit 173 Airborne Unit,
Air Force Left for Overseas Oct. 1965, Vietnam Died Jan. 11, 1966
fatally wounded by a sniper in Iron Triangle, Vietnam Buried Oak
Ridge Cem., Lima, New York Notes Spec. 4 Gerald Lee Dailey served
as a cook in the Battalion. He requested a transfer to a Rifle
Platoon; which was granted. He was fatally wounded by a sniper on
1/11/66, while on patrol on Iron Triangle, a Viet Cong
stronghold. In Vietnam since October 1965. Spec. 4 Dailey was to
have returned to the U.S. in April 1966 to finish up the final 11
months of his enlistment.
Spec. 4 Dailey attended the Lima Free School before enlisting.
His foster parents, Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Olson, live in
Rochester, NY. Notes Sources 1/13/66 D&C - TU 1/18/66
Doug Says: Note that another Cook volunteered for combat duty and
was killed in Vietnam. Yet BS Brooks and Psycho Dai claim this
Cook was never in combat because he never received an infantryman's
MOS before he was killed.
Vietnam and Iraq Similar:
"Gunfire has been the biggest killer of U.S. troops, followed
closely by improvised explosive devices. The two accounts for
more than 250 deaths.
Those killed represent a wide range of military specialties.
Truck drivers and clerks are getting killed just as often, if not
more often, than infantrymen and other combat specialties. "
Doug Says: But BS Brooks, Fake Federal Agent extraordinare, and
Mr. Uy Uy, hero of all border guards and I believe a medal
panderer extraordinare, say that all those men without
infantryman MOS's are not dying in combat. I suspect that might
be news to their families and it sure as hell is news to the US
Military, DOD, Congress, the Pentagon, and all of their
commanders and squad leaders, and to the press. I guess those of
us that believe that when we have been in a fire fight with the
enemy, or otherwise attacked by the enemy, but do not have
infantryman's MOS, that we were engaged in real combat are all
wrong. And only fake Federal Agents and Junior Officer Border
Guards that like to jingle when they walk are right about this
issue. (Someone should tell Psycho Dai that medals do not make
the man, just look at Hanoi John Kerry and Osama Bin Murtha as a
couple of prime examples - what makes the man is honor,
intelligence and ethics - which I believe are sorely missing in
BS Brooks, Psycho Dai and some other members of the Nigel Brooks
smear merchant and cyberstalking gang.
1968
http://tinyurl.com/n6s3z
Time Line Vietnam
The Tet Offensive -While pressure around Khe Sanh increased,
85,000 Communist troops prepared for the Tet offensive. Since the
fall of 1967, the enemy had been infiltrating arms, ammunition,
and men, including entire units, into the South's cities and
towns.
Combat erupted throughout the entire country. Thirty-six of 44
provincial capitals and 64 of 242 district towns were attacked,
as well as 5 of South Vietnam's 6 autonomous cities, among them
Hue City and Saigon. Once the shock and confusion wore off, most
attacks were crushed in a few days. During those few days,
however, the fighting was some of the most violent ever seen in
the South or experienced by many ARVN and American units. In some
American compounds, cooks, radiomen, and clerks took up arms in
their own defense and helicopter gun ships were in the air almost
continuously, assisting the allied forces
The Viet Cong and NVA had suffered a major military defeat,
losing thousands of experienced combatants and seasoned political
cadres and seriously weakening the insurgent base in the South.
Americans at home saw a different picture. Dramatic images of the
Viet Cong storming the American Embassy in the heart of Saigon
and the North Vietnamese Army clinging tenaciously to Hue
obscured the assertion that the enemy had been defeated. With
almost a half-million U.S. troops already in Vietnam, doubts on
the conduct of the war prompted a reassessment of American policy
and strategy.
May and August - The enemy persist in his effort to weaken the
Saigon government, launching nationwide "mini-Tet" offensives.
Pockets of heavy fighting occurred throughout the South and Viet
Cong forces again tried to infiltrate into Saigon-the last gasps
of the general offensive-general uprising. (Note the 25th
Infantry, which was my unit at the time, was assigned to help
defend that entire area). "
Doug Says: According to BS Brooks, all those men that fought the
enemy mentioned above, or were wounded or were killed during the
Tet Offensive months mentioned above (February through August
1968) that did not have infantryman's MOS's were "NOT in combat!"
I believe BS Brooks is a smear merchant that is clearly
attempting to denigrate and steal the honor of all men that
fought in Vietnam without an infantryman's MOS - which represent
about 46% of all US Army Personnel killed in Vietnam!
The following is a list of men that were performing REMF duties
according to BS Brooks and his sock puppets, or duties outside of
their MOS, when they received their CMH award. This list alone
proves that BS Brooks and gang members that agree with him in
respect to this issue are lying, and by publishing such lies are
doing so to attempt to steal and besmirch the honor of all men
that fought in Vietnam by engaging the enemy while performing the
same duties I performed, or fought the enemy without an
infantryman's MOS.
*ANDERSON, WEBSTER Artillery-performing combat duties well
outside of his primary MOS.
Rank and organization: Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army, Battery
A, 2d Battalion, 320th Field Artillery, 101st Airborne Infantry
Division (Airmobile). Place and date: Tam Ky, Republic of
Vietnam, 15 October 1967. Entered service at: Winnsboro, S.C.
Born: 15 July 1933, Winnsboro, S.C. Citation: Sfc. Anderson (then
S/Sgt.), distinguished himself by conspicuous gallantry and
intrepidity in action while serving as chief of section in
Battery A, against a hostile force
*BEIKIRCH, GARY B. Defending Camp-Guard
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company B, 5th
Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces. Place and date: Kontum
Province, Republic of Vietnam, 1 April 1970. Entered service at:
Buffalo, N.Y. Born: 29 August 1947, Rochester, N.Y. Citation: For
conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of
his life above and beyond the call of duty. Sgt. Beikirch,
medical aidman, Detachment B-24, Company B, distinguished himself
during the defense of Camp Dak Seang.Army.
*BENNETT, THOMAS W. -medical aidman- reconnaissance patrol
Rank and organization: Corporal, U.S. Army, 2d Platoon, Company
B, 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry. Place and date: Chu Pa Region,
Pleiku Province, Republic of Vietnam, 9-11 February 1969. Entered
service at: Fairmont, W. Va. Born: 7 April 1947, Morgantown, W.
Va. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action
at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Cpl.
Bennett distinguished himself while serving as a platoon medical
aidman with the 2d Platoon, Company B, during a
reconnaissance-in-force mission.
*BOWEN, HAMMETT L., JR. -reconnaissance mission
Rank and organization: Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company C, 2d
Battalion, 14th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division. Place and date:
Binh Duong Province, Republic of Vietnam, 27 June 1969. Entered
service at: Jacksonville, Fla. Born: 30 November 1947, Lagrange,
Ga. Citation: S/Sgt. Bowen distinguished himself while serving as
a platoon sergeant during combat operations in Binh Duong
Province, Republic of Vietnam. S/Sgt. Bowen's platoon was
advancing on a reconnaissance mission into enemy controlled
terrain when it came under the withering crossfire of small arms
and grenades from an enemy ambush force.
*CAVAIANI, JON R. -security platoon-Sergeant of the Guard
Rank and organization: Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army, Vietnam
Training Advisory Group, Republic of Vietnam. Place and date:
Republic of Vietnam, 4 and 5 June 1971. Entered service at:
Fresno, Calif. Born: 2 August 1943, Royston, England. Citation:
S/Sgt. Cavaiani distinguished himself by conspicuous gallantry
and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of
duty in action in the Republic of Vietnam on 4 and 5 June 1971
while serving as a platoon leader to a security platoon providing
security for an isolated radio relay site located within
enemy-held territory.
*CLAUSEN, RAYMOND M. -helicopter duty- performing combat duties
outside of his MOS
Rank and organization: Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps,
Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 263, Marine Aircraft Croup 16,
1st Marine Aircraft Wing. Place and date: Republic of Vietnam, 31
January 1970. Entered service at: New Orleans, La. Born: 14
October 1947, New Orleans, La. Citation: For conspicuous
gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and
beyond the call of duty while serving with Marine Medium
Helicopter Squadron 263 during operations against enemy forces.
Participating in a helicopter rescue mission to extract elements
of a platoon which had inadvertently entered a minefield while
attacking enemy positions, Pfc. Clausen skillfully guided the
helicopter pilot to a landing in an area cleared by 1 of several
mine explosions.
*DAHL, LARRY G. -transportation Specialist -Performing combat
duties well outside his MOS
Rank and organization: Specialist Fourth Class, U.S. Army, 359th
Transportation Company, 27th Transportation Battalion, U.S. Army
Support Command. Place and date: An Khe, Binh Dinh Province,
Republic of Vietnam, 23 February 1971. Entered service at:
Portland, Oreg. Born: 6 October 1949, Oregon City, Oreg.
Citation: Sp4c. Dahl distinguished himself by conspicuous
gallantry and intrepidity while serving as a machine gunner on a
gun truck near An Khe, Binh Dinh Province.
*DAVIS, SAMMY L. -Artillery- and defending a base - performing
combat duties well outside his MOS
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Army, Battery C, 2d
Battalion, 4th Artillery, 9th Infantry Division. Place and date:
West of Cai Lay, Republic of Vietnam, 18 November 1967. Entered
service at: Indianapolis, Ind. Born: 1 November 1946, Dayton,
Ohio. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in
action at the risk of his life and beyond the call of duty. Sgt.
Davis (then Pfc.) distinguished himself during the early morning
hours while serving as a cannoneer with Battery C, at a remote
fire support base. At approximately 0200 hours, the fire support
base
*DEVORE, EDWARD A., Jr. -reconnaissance-in force mission
Rank and organization: Specialist Fourth Class, U.S. Army,
Company B, 4th Battalion, 39th Infantry, 9th Infantry Division.
Place and date: Near Saigon, Republic of Vietnam, 17 March 1968.
Entered service at: Harbor City, Calif. Born: 15 June 1947,
Torrance, Calif. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and
intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond
the call of duty. Sp4c. DeVore, distinguished himself by
exceptionally valorous actions on the afternoon of 17 March 1968,
while serving as a machine gunner with Company B, on a
reconnaissance-in-force mission approximately 5 kilometers south
of Saigon.
*DIAS, RALPH E. -Reactionary Force Member
Rank and organization: Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps, 3d
Platoon, Company D, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine
Division (Rein) FMF. Place and date: Que Son Mountains, Republic
of Vietnam, 12 November 1969. Entered service at: Pittsburgh, Pa.
Born: 15 July 1950, Shelocta, Indiana County, Pa. Citation: As a
member of a reaction force which was pinned down by enemy fire
while assisting a platoon in the same circumstance, Pfc. Dias,
observing that both units were sustaining casualties, initiated
an aggressive assault against an enemy machine gun bunker which
was the principal source of hostile fire.
*DIX, DREW DENNIS -unit advisor -reactionary force and defense of
perimeter - and performing combat duties well outside of his
primary MOS
Rank and Organization: Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army, U.S. Senior
Advisor Group, IV Corps, Military Assistance Command. Place and
date: Chau Doc Province, Republic of Vietnam, 31 January and 1
February 1968. Entered service at: Denver, Colo. Born: 14
December 1944, West Point, N.Y. Citation: For conspicuous
gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above
and beyond the call of duty. S/Sgt. Dix distinguished himself by
exceptional heroism while serving as a unit adviser.
*DONLON, ROGER HUGH C. -defending a military installation
Rank and organization: Captain, U.S. Army. Place and date: Near
Nam Dong, Republic of Vietnam, 6 July 1964. Entered service at:
Fort Chaffee, Ark. Born: 30 January 1934, Saugerties, N.Y. G.O.
No.: 41, 17 December 1964. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry
and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call
of duty while defending a U.S. military installation against a
fierce attack by hostile forces. Capt. Donlon was serving as the
commanding officer of the U.S. Army Special Forces Detachment
A-726 at Camp Nam Dong when a reinforced Viet Cong battalion
suddenly launched a full-scale, predawn attack on the camp.
During the violent battle that ensued, lasting 5 hours and
resulting in heavy casualties on both sides, Capt. Donlon
directed the defense operations in the midst of an enemy barrage
of mortar shells, falling grenades, and extremely heavy gunfire.
*DURHAM, HAROLD BASCOM, JR. - Forward Observer - operating well
outside of his primary MOS by participating in battalion size
reconnaissance-in-force mission.
Rank and organization: Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, Battery C,
6th Battalion, 15th Artillery, 1st Infantry Division . Place and
date: Republic of Vietnam, 17 October 1967. Entered service at:
Atlanta, Ga. Born: 12 October 1942, Rocky Mount, N.C. Citation:
2d Lt. Durham, Artillery, distinguished himself by conspicuous
gallantry and intrepidity at the cost of his life above and
beyond the call of duty while assigned to Battery C. 2d Lt.
Durham was serving as a forward observer with Company D, 2d
Battalion, 28th Infantry during a battalion
reconnaissance-in-force
*EVANS, RODNEY J. -reconnaissance sweep around base camp - duty
of a security/reactionary force platoon Sergeant.
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company D, 1st
Battalion, 12th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division. Place and date:
Tay Ninh Province, Republic of Vietnam, 18 July 1969. Entered
service at: Montgomery, Ala. Born: 17 July 1948, Chelsea, Mass.
Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at
the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Sgt.
Evans distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism while
serving as a squad leader in a reconnaissance sweep through heavy
vegetation to reconnoiter a strong enemy position.
*FERGUSON, FREDERICK EDGAR - resupply helicopter
pilot -performing combat duties well outside of his primary MOS
Rank and organization: Chief Warrant Officer, U.S. Army, Company
C, 227th Aviation Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile).
Place and date: Hue, Republic of Vietnam, 31 January 1968.
Entered service at: Phoenix, Ariz. Born: 18 August 1939, Pilot
Point, Tex. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity
in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of
duty. CWO Ferguson, U.S. Army distinguished himself while serving
with Company C. CWO Ferguson, commander of a resupply helicopter
monitoring an emergency call from wounded passengers and crewmen
of a downed helicopter under heavy attack within the enemy
controlled city of Hue, unhesitatingly volunteered to attempt
evacuation.
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* FERNANDEZ, DANIEL -25th Infantry Reactionary/Security all
volunteer platoon. Sp4 Fernandez was working as a "Cook" before
he volunteered for the duty that got him killed. (His primary was
11B but they had him working as a cook according to the SSG that
sent me this information and knew him in the 1/5th). (This
information was provided by a former SSG member of the 1/5th
where the reactionary/security platoon often operated out of. )
Rank and organization: Specialist Fourth Class, U.S. Army,
Company C, 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry (Mechanized) 25th Infantry
Division. Place and date: Cu Chi, Hau Nghia Province, Republic of
Vietnam, 18 February 1966. Entered service at: Albuquerque, N.
Mex. Born: 30 June 1944, Albuquerque, N. Mex. c.o. No.: 21, 26
April 1967. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity
at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Sp4c.
Fernandez demonstrated indomitable courage when the patrol was
ambushed by a Viet Cong rifle company and driven back by the
intense enemy automatic weapons fire before it could evacuate an
American soldier who had been wounded in the Viet Cong attack.
Sp4c. Fernandez, a sergeant and 2 other volunteers immediately
fought their way through devastating fire and exploding grenades
to reach the fallen soldier. Upon reaching their fallen comrade
the sergeant was struck in the knee by machine gun fire and
immobilized. Sp4c. Fernandez took charge, rallied the left flank
of his patrol and began to assist in the recovery of the wounded
sergeant. While first aid was being administered to the wounded
man, a sudden increase in the accuracy and intensity of enemy
fire forced the volunteer group to take cover. As they did, an
enemy grenade landed in the midst of the group, although some men
did not see it. Realizing there was no time for the wounded
sergeant or the other men to protect themselves from the grenade
blast, Sp4c. Fernandez vaulted over the wounded sergeant and
threw himself on the grenade as it exploded, saving the lives of
his 4 comrades at the sacrifice of his life. Sp4c. Fernandez'
profound concern for his fellow soldiers, at the risk of his life
above and beyond the call of duty are in the highest traditions
of the U.S. Army and reflect great credit upon himself and the
Armed Forces of his country.
*FOLLAND, MICHAEL FLEMING -ammo bearer on a reconnissance patrol
Rank and organization: Corporal, U.S. Army, Company D, 2d
Battalion, 3d Infantry, 199th Infantry Brigade. Place and date:
Long Khanh, Providence, Republic of Vietnam, 3 July 1969. Entered
service at: Richmond, Va. Born: 15 April 1949, Richmond, Va.
Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at
the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Cpl.
Folland distinguished himself while serving as an ammunition
bearer with the weapons platoon of Company D, during a
reconnaissance patrol mission.
*FOSTER, PAUL HELLSTROM -liaison operations chief - performing
combat duties well outside of his primary MOS.
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, 2d
Battalion, 4th Marines, 3d Marine Division. Place and date: Near
Con Thien, Republic of Vietnam, 14 October 1967. Entered service
at: San Francisco, Calif. Born: 17 April 1939, San Mateo, Calif.
Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk
of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as an
artillery liaison operations chief with the 2d Battalion.
*GONZALEZ, ALFREDO -reactionary force member.
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps, Company A,
1st Battalion, 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division (Rein), FMF.
Place and date: Near Thua Thien, Republic of Vietnam, 4 February
1968. Entered service at: San Antonio, Tex. Born: 23 May 1946,
Edinburg Tex. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity
at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while
serving as platoon commander, 3d Platoon, Company A. On 31
January 1968, during the initial phase of Operation Hue City,
Sgt. Gonzalez' unit was formed as a reaction force and deployed
to Hue to relieve the pressure on the beleaguered city.
*HARTSOCK, ROBERT W. -defending a 25th Infantry Division Base
Camp-Sergeant of the Guard.
Rank and organization: Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army, 44th Infantry
Platoon, 3d Brigade, 25th Infantry Division. Place and date: Hau
Nghia, Province, Republic of Vietnam, 23 February 1969. Entered
service at: Fairmont, W. Va. Born: 24 January 1945, Cumberland,
Md. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action
at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. S/Sgt.
Hartsock, distinguished himself in action while serving as
section leader with the 44th Infantry Platoon. When the Dau Tieng
Base Camp came under a heavy enemy rocket and mortar attack,
S/Sgt. Hartsock and his platoon commander spotted an enemy sapper
squad which had infiltrated the camp undetected. Realizing the
enemy squad was heading for the brigade tactical operations
center and nearby prisoner compound, they concealed themselves
and, although heavily outnumbered, awaited the approach of the
hostile soldiers. When the enemy was almost upon them, S/Sgt.
Hartsock and his platoon commander opened fire on the squad. As a
wounded enemy soldier fell, he managed to detonate a satchel
charge he was carrying. S/Sgt. Hartsock, with complete disregard
for his life, threw himself on the charge and was gravely
wounded. In spite of his wounds, S/Sgt. Hartsock crawled about 5
meters to a ditch and provided heavy suppressive fire, completely
pinning down the enemy and allowing his commander to seek
shelter. S/Sgt. Hartsock continued his deadly stream of fire
until he succumbed to his wounds. S/Sgt. Hartsock's extraordinary
heroism and profound concern for the lives of his fellow soldiers
were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military
service and reflect great credit on him, his unit, and the U.S.
Army.
*HERDA, FRANK A. -defending a perimeter - guard duty.
Rank and organization: Specialist Fourth Class, U.S. Army,
Company A, 1st Battalion (Airborne), 506th Infantry, 101st
Airborne Division (Airmobile). Place and date: Near Dak To, Quang
Trang Province, Republic of Vietnam, 29 June 1968. Entered
service at: Cleveland, Ohio. Born: 13 September 1947, Cleveland,
Ohio. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in
action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty.
Sp4c. Herda (then Pfc.) distinguished himself while serving as a
grenadier with Company A. Company A was part of a battalion-size
night defensive perimeter when a large enemy force initiated an
attack on the friendly units. While other enemy elements provided
diversionary fire and indirect weapons fire to the west, a sapper
force of approximately 30 men armed with hand grenades and small
charges attacked Company A's perimeter from the east. As the
sappers were making a last, violent assault, 5 of them charged
the position defended by Sp4c. Herda and 2 comrades, 1 of whom
was wounded and lay helpless in the bottom of the foxhole. Sp4c.
Herda fired at the aggressors until they were within 10 feet of
his position and 1 of their grenades landed in the foxhole. He
fired 1 last round from his grenade launcher, hitting 1 of the
enemy soldiers in the head, and then, with no concern for his
safety, Sp4c. Herda immediately covered the blast of the grenade
with his body. The explosion wounded him grievously, but his
selfless action prevented his 2 comrades from being seriously
injured or killed and enabled the remaining defender to kill the
other sappers. By his gallantry at the risk of his life in the
highest traditions of the military service, Sp4c. Herda has
reflected great credit on himself, his unit, and the U.S. Army.
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*INGALLS, GEORGE ALAN -non infantryman MOS- performing combat
duties well outside of his primary MOS.
Rank and organization: Specialist Fourth Class, U.S. Army,
Company A, 2d Battalion, 5th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division
(Airmobile). Place and date: Near Duc Pho, Republic of Vietnam,
16 April 1967. Entered service at: Los Angeles, Calif. Born: 9
March 1946, Hanford, Calif. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry
and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and
beyond the call of duty. Sp4c. Ingalls, a member of Company A,
accompanied his squad on a night ambush mission. Shortly after
the ambush was established, an enemy soldier entered the killing
zone and was shot when he tried to evade capture. Other enemy
soldiers were expected to enter the area, and the ambush was
maintained in the same location. Two quiet hours passed without
incident, then suddenly a hand grenade was thrown from the nearby
dense undergrowth into the center of the squad's position. The
grenade did not explode, but shortly thereafter a second grenade
landed directly between Sp4c. Ingalls and a nearby comrade.
Although he could have jumped to a safe position, Sp4c. Ingalls,
in a spontaneous act of great courage, threw himself on the
grenade and absorbed its full blast. The explosion mortally
wounded Sp4c. Ingalls, but his heroic action saved the lives of
the remaining members of his squad. His gallantry and selfless
devotion to his comrades are in keeping with the highest
traditions of the military service and reflects great credit upon
Sp4c. Ingalls, his unit, and the U.S. Army.
*JACOBS, JACK H. - administrative- assistant battalion advisor.
Performing combat duties well outside of his primary MOS.
Rank and organization: Captain, U.S. Army, U.S. Army Element,
U.S. Military Assistance Command, Republic of Vietnam. Place and
date: Kien Phong Province, Republic of Vietnam, 9 March 1968.
Entered service at: Trenton, N.J. Born: 2 August 1945, Brooklyn,
N.Y. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in
action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty.
Capt. Jacobs (then 1st Lt.), Infantry, distinguished himself
while serving as assistant battalion advisor, 2d Battalion, 16th
Infantry, 9th Infantry Division, Army of the Republic of Vietnam.
*JENKINS, DON J. - reconnaissance patrol.
Rank and organization: Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company A, 2d
Battalion, 39th Infantry, 9th Infantry Division. Place and date:
Kien Phong Province, Republic of Vietnam, 6 January 1969. Entered
service at: Nashville, Tenn. Born: 18 April 1948, Quality, Ky.
Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at
the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. S/Sgt.
Jenkins (then Pfc.), Company A, distinguished himself while
serving as a machine gunner on a reconnaissance mission.
*JENNINGS, DELBERT O. - Defending a camp.
Rank and organization: Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company C, 1st
Battalion (Airborne), 12th Cavalry, 1st Air Cavalry Division.
Place and date: Kim Song Valley, Republic of Vietnam, 27 December
1966. Entered service at: San Francisco, Calif. Born: 23 July
1936, Silver City, N. Mex. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry
and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of
duty. Part of Company C was defending an artillery position when
attacked by a North Vietnamese Army regiment supported by mortar,
recoilless-rifle, and machine gun fire.
*JOHNSON, DWIGHT H. - reactionary force member performing combat
duties well outside his MOS
Rank and organization: Specialist Fifth Class, U.S. Army, Company
B, 1st Battalion, 69th Armor, 4th Infantry Division. Place and
date: Near Dak To, Kontum Province, Republic of Vietnam, 15
January 1968. Entered service at: Detriot, Mich. Born: 7 May
1947, Detroit, Mich. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and
intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of
duty. Sp5c. Johnson, a tank driver with Company B, was a member
of a reaction force moving to aid other elements of his platoon,
which was in heavy contact with a battalion size North Vietnamese
force.
*KAWAMURA, TERRY TERUO -Engineer - defending a base
camp -performing combat duties well outside of his MOS
Rank and organization: Corporal, U.S. Army, 173d Engineer
Company, 173d Airborne Brigade, Republic of Vietnam. Place and
date: Camp Radcliff, Republic of Vietnam, 20 March 1969. Entered
service at: Oahu, Hawaii. Born. 10 December 1949, Wahiawa, Oahu,
Hawaii. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in
action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty.
Cpl. Kawamura distinguished himself by heroic action while
serving as a member of the 173d Engineer Company. An enemy
demolition team infiltrated the unit quarters area and opened
fire with automatic weapons. Disregarding the intense fire, Cpl.
Kawamura ran for his weapon. At that moment, a violent explosion
tore a hole in the roof and stunned the occupants of the room.
Cpl. Kawamura jumped to his feet, secured his weapon and, as he
ran toward the door to return the enemy fire, he observed that
another explosive charge had been thrown through the hole in the
roof to the floor. He immediately realized that 2 stunned fellow
soldiers were in great peril and shouted a warning. Although in a
position to escape, Cpl. Kawamura unhesitatingly wheeled around
and threw himself on the charge. In completely disregarding his
safety, Cpl. Kawamura prevented serious injury or death to
several members of his unit. The extraordinary courage and
selflessness displayed by Cpl. Kawamura are in the highest
traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon
himself, his unit, and the U.S. Army.
*LANGHORN, GARFIELD M. -radio operator - performing combat duties
well outside of his MOS
Rank and organization: Private First class, U.S. Army, Troop C,
7th Squadron (Airmobile), 17th Cavalry, 1st Aviation Brigade.
place and date: Pleiku province, Republic of Vietnam, 15 January
1969. Entered service at: Brooklyn, N.Y. Born: 10 September 1948,
Cumberland, Va. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and
intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond
the call of duty. Pfc. Langhorn distinguished himself while
serving as a radio operator with Troop C, near Plei Djereng in
Pleiku province.
*LEE, MILTON A. -radio telephone operator- fighting outside of
his MOS
Rank and organization: Private First Class, U.S. Army, Company B,
2d Battalion, 502d Infantry, 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division
(Airmobile). place and date: Near Phu Bai, Thua Thien province,
Republic of Vietnam, 26 April 1968. Entered service at: San
Antonio, Tex. Born: 28 February 1949, Shreveport, La. Citation:
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk
of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Pfc. Lee
distinguished himself near the city of Phu Bai in the province of
Thua Thien. Pfc. Lee was serving as the radio telephone operator
with the 3d platoon, Company B.
*LEMON, PETER C. - defending a base camp - Guard
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company E, 2d
Battalion, 8th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division. place and date: Tay
Ninh province, Republic of Vietnam, 1 April 1970. Entered service
at: Tawas City, Mich. Born: 5 June 1950, Toronto, Canada.
Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at
the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Sgt.
Lemon (then Sp4c.), Company E, distinguished himself while
serving as an assistant machine gunner during the defense of Fire
Support Base Illingworth.
*LEVITOW, JOHN L. -Loadmaster for an aircraft-performing combat
duties well outside of his MOS
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Air Force, 3d Special
Operations Squadron. place and date: Long Binh Army post,
Republic of Vietnam, 24 February 1969. Entered service at: New
Haven, Conn. Born: 1 November 1945, Hartford, Conn. Citation: For
conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of
his life above and beyond the call of duty. Sgt. Levitow (then
A1c.), U.S. Air Force, distinguished himself by exceptional
heroism while assigned as a loadmaster aboard an AC-47 aircraft
flying a night mission in support of Long Binh Army post.
*LONG, DONALD RUSSELL -reconnaissance patrol
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Army, Troop C, 1st
Squadron, 4th Cavalry, 1st Infantry Division. place and date:
Republic of Vietnam, 30 June 1966. Entered service at: Ashland,
Ky. Born: 27 August 1939, Blackfork, Ohio. G.O. No.: 13, 4 April
1968. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in
action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty.
Troops B and C, while conducting a reconnaissance mission along a
road were suddenly attacked by a Viet Cong regiment, supported by
mortars, recoilless rifles and machine guns, from concealed
positions astride the road.
*LYNCH, ALLEN JAMES -radio telephone operator performing combat
duties well outside of his MOS
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company D, 1st
Battalion (Airmobile), 12th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division
(Airmobile). place and date: Near My An (2), Binh Dinh province,
Republic of Vietnam, 15 December 1967. Entered service at:
Chicago, Ill. Born: 28 October 1945, Chicago, Ill. Citation: For
conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of
his life above and beyond the call of duty. Sgt. Lynch (then
Sp4c.) distinguished himself while serving as a radio telephone
operator with Company D.
*MAXAM, LARRY LEONARD -Defending a perimeter around a
Headquarters under attack.
Rank and organization: Corporal, U.S. Marine Corps, Company D,
1st Battalion, 4th Marines, 3d Marine Division (Rein), FMF. place
and date: Cam Lo District, Quang Tri province, Republic of
Vietnam, 2 February 1968. Entered service at: Los Angeles, Calif.
Born: 9 January 1948, Glendale, Calif. Citation: For conspicuous
gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and
beyond the call of duty while serving as a fire team leader with
Company D. The Cam Lo District Headquarters came under extremely
heavy rocket, artillery, mortar, and recoilless rifle fire from a
numerically superior enemy force, destroying a portion of the
defensive perimeter. Cpl. Maxam, observing the enemy massing for
an assault into the compound across the remaining defensive wire,
instructed his assistant fire team leader to take charge of the
fire team, and unhesitatingly proceeded to the weakened section
of the perimeter.
*MOLNAR, FRANKIE ZOLY - defending a perimeter -Sergeant of the
Guard
Rank and organization: Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company B, 1st
Battalion, 8th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division. place and date:
Kontum Province, Republic of Vietnam, 20 May 1967. Entered
service at: Fresno, Calif. Born: 14 February 1943, Logan, W. Va.
Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at
the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. S/Sgt.
Molnar distinguished himself while serving as a squad leader with
Company B, during combat operations. Shortly after the
battalion's defensive perimeter was established, it was hit by
intense mortar fire as the prelude to a massive enemy night
attack. S/Sgt. Molnar immediately left his sheltered location to
insure the readiness of his squad to meet the attack
McNERNEY, DAVID H. -Defending a defensive perimeter.
Rank and organization: First Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company A, 1st
Battalion, 8th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division. place and date:
polei Doc, Republic of Vietnam, 22 March 1967. Entered service
at: Fort Bliss, Tex. Born: 2 June 1931, Lowell, Mass. Citation:
1st Sgt. McNerney distinguished himself when his unit was
attacked by a North Vietnamese battalion near polei Doc. Running
through the hail of enemy fire to the area of heaviest contact,
he was assisting in the development of a defensive perimeter when
he encountered several enemy at close range. He killed the enemy
but was painfully injured when blown from his feet by a grenade.
In spite of this injury, he assaulted and destroyed an enemy
machine gun position that had pinned down 5 of his comrades
beyond the defensive line.
*PETERSEN, DANNY J. -APC Driver - performing combat duties well
outside of his MOS
Rank and organization: Specialist Fourth Class, U.S. Army,
Company B, 4th Battalion, 23d Infantry, 25th Infantry Division.
Place and date: Tay Ninh Province, Republic of Vietnam, 9 January
1970. Entered service at: Kansas City, Mo. Born: 11 March 1949,
Horton, Kans. Citation: Sp4c. Petersen distinguished himself
while serving as an armored personnel carrier commander with
Company B during a combat operation against a North Vietnamese
Army Force estimated to be of battalion size. During the initial
contact with the enemy, an armored personnel carrier was disabled
and the crewmen were pinned down by the heavy onslaught of enemy
small arms
*PHIPPS, JIMMY W. - Engineer performing combat duties well
outside of his MOS
Rank and organization: Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps,
Company B, 1st Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division (Rein),
FMF. Place and date: Near An Hoa, Republic of Vietnam, 27 May
1969. Entered service at: Culver City, Calif. Born: 1 November
1950, Santa Monica, Calif. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry
and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call
of duty while serving as a combat engineer with Company B in
connection with combat operations against the enemy
*PITSENBARGER WILLIAM H. - Helicopter Crew Member- performing
combat duties welll outside of his MOS
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act
of Congress, March 3, 1863, has awarded in the name of The
Congress the Medal of Honor to
AIRMAN FIRST CLASS WILLIAM H. PITSENBARGER
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life
above and beyond the call of duty. Airman First Class
Pitsenbarger distinguished himself by extreme valor on 11 April
1966 near Cam My, Republic of Vietnam, while assigned as a
Pararescue Crew Member, Detachment 6, 38th Aerospace Rescue and
Recovery Squadron. On that date, Airman Pitsenbarger was aboard a
rescue helicopter responding to a call for evacuation of
casualties incurred in an ongoing firefight between elements of
the United States Army's 1st Infantry Division and a sizeable
enemy force approximately 35 miles east of Saigon. With complete
disregard for personal safety, Airman Pitsenbarger volunteered to
ride a hoist more than one h
*RAY, RONALD ERIC - reaction force commandeer
Rank and organization: Captain (then 1st Lt.), U.S. Army, Company
A, 2d Battalion, 35th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division. Place and
date: la Drang Valley, Republic of Vietnam, 19 June 1966. Entered
service at: Atlanta, Ga. Born: 7 December 1941, Cordelle, Ga.
Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at
the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Capt. Ray
distinguished himself while serving as a platoon leader with
Company A. When 1 of his ambush patrols was attacked by an
estimated reinforced Viet Cong company, Capt. Ray organized a
reaction force and quickly moved through 2 kilometers of
mountainous jungle terrain to the contact area.
*ROCCO, LOUIS R. - volunteer to accompany a medical evacuation
team - performing combat duties well outside of his MOS
Rank and organization: Warrant Officer (then Sergeant First
Class), U.S. Army, Advisory Team 162, U.S. Military Assistance
Command. Place and date: Northeast of Katum, Republic of Vietnam,
24 May 1970. Entered service at: Los Angeles, Calif. Born: 19
November 1938, Albuquerque, N. Mex. Citation: WO Rocco
distinguished himself when he volunteered to accompany a medical
evacuation team on an urgent mission to evacuate 8 critically
wounded Army of the Republic of Vietnam personnel. As the
helicopter approached the landing zone, it became the target for
intense enemy automatic weapons fire. Disregarding his own
safety,
*ROGERS, CHARLES CALVIN - Defending a base
Rank and organization: Lieutenant Colonel, U.S . Army, 1st
Battalion, 5th Artillery, 1st Infantry Division. Place and date:
Fishhook, near Cambodian border, Republic of Vietnam, 1 November
1968. Entered service at: Institute, W Va. Born: 6 September
1929, Claremont, W Va. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and
intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond
the call of duty. Lt. Col. Rogers, Field Artillery, distinguished
himself in action while serving as commanding officer, 1st
Battalion, during the defense of a forward fire support base. In
the early morning hours, the fire support base was subjected to a
concentrated bombardment of heavy mortar, rocket and rocket
propelled grenade fire.
*RUBIO, EURIPIDES -communications officer performing combat
duties well outside his MOS
Rank and organization: Captain, U.S. Army, Headquarters and
Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry, 1st Infantry
Division, RVN. Place and date: Tay Ninh Province, Republic of
Vietnam, 8 November 1966. Entered service at: Fort Buchanan,
Puerto Rico. Born: 1 March 1938, Ponce, Puerto Rico. Citation:
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk
of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Capt. Rubio,
Infantry, was serving as communications officer, 1st Battalion,
when a numerically superior enemy force launched a massive attack
against the battalion defense position. Intense enemy machine gun
fire raked the area while mortar rounds and rifle grenades
exploded within the perimeter.
*SANTIAGO-COLON, HECTOR - guard duty- perimeter sentry -
Rank and organization: Specialist Fourth Class, U.S. Army,
Company B, 5th Battalion, 7th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division
(Airmobile). Place and date: Quang Tri Province, Republic of
Vietnam, 28 June 1968. Entered service at: New York, N.Y. Born:
20 December 1942, Salinas, Puerto Rico. Citation: For conspicuous
gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above
and beyond the call of duty. Sp4c. Santiago-Colon distinguished
himself at the cost of his life while serving as a gunner in the
mortar platoon of Company B. While serving as a perimeter sentry,
Sp4c. Santiago-Colon heard distinct movement in the heavily
wooded area to his front and flanks. Immediately he alerted his
fellow sentries in the area to move to their foxholes and remain
alert for any enemy probing forces.
*SEAY, WILLIAM W. - Truck Driver - performing combat duties well
outside of his MOS
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Army, 62d Transportation
Company (Medium Truck), 7th Transportation Battalion, 48th
Transportation Group. Place and date: Near Ap Nhi, Republic of
Vietnam 25 August 1968. Entered service at: Montgomery, Ala.
Born: 24 October 1948, Brewton, Ala. Citation: For conspicuous
gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above
and beyond the call of duty. Sgt. Seay distinguished himself
while serving as a driver with the 62d Transportation Company, on
a resupply mission.
*SHIELDS, MARVIN G. - Construction Mechanic - performing combat
duties well outside of his MOS
Rank and organization: Construction Mechanic Third Class, U.S.
Navy, Seabee Team 1104. Place and date: Dong Xoai, Republic of
Vietnam, 10 June 1965. Entered service at: Seattle, Wash. Born:
30 December 1939, Port Townsend, Wash. Citation: For conspicuous
gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and
beyond the call of duty.
*SKIDGEL, DONALD SIDNEY -Convoy security -performing combat
duties well outside of his MOS
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Army, Troop D, 1st
Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division. Place and date: Near
Song Be, Republic of Vietnam, 14 September 1969. Entered service
at: Bangor, Maine. Born: 13 October 1948, Caribou, Maine.
Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at
the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Sgt.
Skidgel distinguished himself while serving as a reconnaissance
section leader in Troop D. On a road near Song Be in Binh Long
Province, Sgt. Skidgel and his section with other elements of his
troop were acting as a convoy security and screening force when
contact occurred with an estimated enemy battalion concealed in
tall grass and in bunkers bordering the road. Sgt.Skidgel
*SMITH, ELMELINDO R. -Reconnaissance patrol
Rank and organization: Platoon Sergeant (then S/Sgt.), U.S. Army,
1st Platoon, Company C, 2d Battalion, 8th Infantry, 4th Infantry
Division. Place and date: Republic of Vietnam, 16 February 1967.
Entered service at: Honolulu, Hawaii. Born: 27 July 1935,
Honolulu, Hawaii. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and
intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of
duty. During a reconnaissance patrol. his platoon was suddenly
engaged by intense machine gun fire hemming in the platoon on 3
sides.
*SPRAYBERRY, JAMES M . - commanding a volunteer patrol consisting
of many non-combat MOS personnell.
Rank and organization: Captain (then 1st Lt.), U.S. Army, Company
D, 5th Battalion, 7th Cavalry , 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile).
Place and date: Republic of Vietnam, 25 April 1968. Entered
service at: Montgomery, Ala. Born: 24 April 1947, LaGrange, Ga.
Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at
the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Capt.
Sprayberry, Armor, U.S. Army, distinguished himself by
exceptional bravery while serving as executive officer of Company
D. His company commander and a great number of the men were
wounded and separated from the main body of the company. A
daylight attempt to rescue them was driven back by the well
entrenched enemy's heavy fire. Capt. Sprayberry then organized
and led a volunteer night patrol to eliminate the intervening
enemy bunkers and to relieve the surrounded element.
*STEWART, JIMMY G. - defending a perimeter as a Sergeant of the
Guard
Rank and organization: Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company B, 2d
Battalion, 12th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). Place
and date: Republic of Vietnam, 18 May 1966. Entered service at:
Ashland, Ky. Born: 25 December 1942, West Columbia, W. Va.
Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at
the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Early in
the morning a reinforced North Vietnamese company attacked
Company B, which was manning a defensive perimeter in Vietnam.
*STOUT, MITCHELL W. - member of a searchlight crew- performed
combat duties well outside of his MOS
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Army, Battery C, 1st
Battalion, 44th Artillery. Place and date: Khe Gio Bridge,
Republic of Vietnam, 12 March 1970. Entered service at: Raleigh,
N.C. Born: 24 February 1950, Knoxville, Tenn. Citation: Sgt.
Stout distinguished himself during an attack by a North
Vietnamese Army Sapper company on his unit's firing position at
Khe Gio Bridge. Sgt. Stout was in a bunker with members of a
searchlight crew when the position came under heavy enemy mortar
fire and ground attack
*THACKER, BRIAN MILES - leader of an Integrated Observation
System-performed combat duties well outside his MOS
Rank and organization: First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, Battery A,
1st Battalion, 92d Artillery. Place and date: Kontum Province,
Republic of Vietnam, 31 March 1971. Entered service at: Salt Lake
City, Utah. Born: 25 April 1945, Columbus, Ohio. Citation: For
conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of
his life above and beyond the call of duty. 1st Lt. Thacker,
Field Artillery, Battery A, distinguished himself while serving
as the team leader of an Integrated Observation System collocated
with elements of 2 Army of the Republic of Vietnam units at Fire
Base 6.
*WETZEL, GARY GEORGE - Door Gunner
Rank and organization: Specialist Fourth Class (then Pfc.), U.S.
Army, 173d Assault Helicopter Company. Place and date: Near Ap
Dong An, Republic of Vietnam, 8 January 1968. Entered service at:
Milwaukee, Wis. Born: 29 September 1947, South Milwaukee, Wis.
Citation. Sp4c. Wetzel, 173d Assault Helicopter Company,
distinguished himself by conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at
the risk of his life. above and beyond the call of duty. Sp4c.
Wetzel was serving as door gunner aboard a helicopter which was
part of an insertion force trapped in a landing zone by intense
and deadly hostile fire.
*WHEAT, ROY M. - Security force member
Rank and organization: Lance Corporal, U.S. Marine Corps, Company
K, 3d Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division. Place and
date: Republic of Vietnam, 11 August 1967. Entered service a*:
Jackson, Miss. Born: 24 July 1947, Moselle, Miss. Citation: For
conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life
above and beyond the call of duty. L/Cpl. Wheat and 2 other
marines were assigned the mission of providing security for a
Navy construction battalion crane and crew operating along
Liberty Road in the vicinity of the Dien Ban District, Quang Nam
Province.
*YABES, MAXIMO (25TH) -Sergeant in charge of a Security force.
Rank and organization: First Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company A, 4th
Battalion, 9th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division. Place and date:
Near Phu Hoa Dong, Republic of Vietnam, 26 February 1967. Entered
service at: Eugene, Oreg. Born: 29 January 1932, Lodi, Calif.
Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk
of his life above and beyond the call of duty. 1st Sgt. Yabes
distinguished himself with Company A, which was providing
security for a land clearing operation.
*YANO, RODNEY J. T. - Crew Chief - performing combat duties well
outside of his MOS
Rank and organization: Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army, Air
Cavalry Troop, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment. Place and date:
Near Bien Hao, Republic of Vietnam, 1 January 1969. Entered
service at: Honolulu, Hawaii. Born: 13 December 1943, Kealakekua
Kona, Hawaii. Citation: Sfc. Yano distinguished himself while
serving with the Air Cavalry Troop. Sfc. Yano was performing the
duties of crew chief aboard the troop's command-and-control
helicopter during action against enemy forces entrenched in dense
jungle.
*YOUNG, MARVIN R. - Reconnaissance patrol - 25th Infantry
Division during the time I was in the 25th Infantry Division and
was participating on such patrols.
Rank and organization: Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company C, 1st
Battalion, (Mechanized), 5th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division.
Place and date: Near Ben Cui, Republic of Vietnam, 21 August
1968. Entered service at: Odessa, Tex. Born: 11 May 1947, Alpine,
Tex. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in
action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty.
S/Sgt. Young distinguished himself at the cost of his life while
serving as a squad leader with Company C. While conducting a
reconnaissance mission in the vicinity of Ben Cui, Company C was
suddenly engaged by an estimated regimental-size force of the
North Vietnamese Army. During the initial volley of fire the
point element of the 1st Platoon was pinned down, sustaining
several casualities.
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