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Originally Posted by Shek
Debbie,
I have read the same as what Ironduke stated. Not sure if you understood the acronym that he used, but the spec ops guys doing missions where we didn't do missions would be a good case where you could award something without drawing attention. As far as the SS goes, I would not consider it to be a posthumous award, although I'm in many cases it was awarded posthumously.
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Too often, they would find themselves, a single squad, surrounded by a battalion or even brigade-sized NVA unit... and call in an air strike right on top of themselves. That's an example of what they would do. The choppers didn't land to pick them up. They threw out ropes and they'd ride them all the way back to the firebase.
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I'd like to get him on the site but he's not very computer literate, pretty much limited to casino games, bejeweled installed from CD.