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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Internet VFW > You earned that!
 
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The Rat
Aug 29, 2004

You will find no one to help you here. Beth DuClare has been dissected and placed in cryonic storage.

 My ETS award had as part of the bullet points "wrote an in-depth folder of PIR and constructed a special 'Death Korps of Krieg' HVT uniform for use in missions against Ranger students, which resulted in improved training for them."

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The Rat
Aug 29, 2004

You will find no one to help you here. Beth DuClare has been dissected and placed in cryonic storage.

McNally posted:

My dad was an Air Force command post guy from '69 to '92 (with a stint as a fuel guy on Titan IIs from '67 to '69) and knew a guy who'd been at the command post in Saigon when Tet kicked off.

So dad's buddy is the NCO for the command post and their watch officer was holed up in his billet while the goddamned Tet Offensive is happening in Saigon. The NCO grabs the other guy in the command post, grab M16s and a jeep, and go out into fuckin' Saigon in the middle of fuckin' Tet to grab their watch officer and bring him back to the safety of the command post.

The watch officer got a Silver Star, I believe. The two guys who rescued him did not.

Comedy option: They got Article 15s for not signing out their weapons and taking a jeep without authorization.

I misread that as being your dad at first and thought to myself that you must have genetically terrible luck.

I'm picturing the scene in Forrest Gump where he's talking about LT Dan's ancestors all dying in wars throughout history, except it's McNally's ancestors all getting horribly hosed over in ridiculous circumstances.

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