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11. Some wanted to court-martial him but his father was too powerful, I had a friend get that medal

Fri Jun 29, 2018, 03:56 PM

Jun 2018

when I was in, he pulled one of us out of the river during a night jump.

There was a reason why his award was a non-combat award although a Jap destroyer and dead crew members were all involved.

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True red dog 1 Jun 2018 #10

Some wanted to court-martial him but his father was too powerful, I had a friend get that medal braddy Jun 2018 #11

"Some wanted to court-martial him"? red dog 1 Jun 2018 #12

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From Wikipedia: red dog 1 Jun 2018 #16

Wiki is far from perfectly accurate, why no medal for combat heroism? You will have to dig more into braddy Jun 2018 #17

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Wait all you want, I'm not going to devote the time and effort to start from scratch on this braddy Jun 2018 #20

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