[Vhfcn-l] Viet Nam Air Medals

[Warren Moore]

Yes, but we're they
CA, combat assault, or
CS, combat support.
Sorry, I was of a different time frame, mine was 1971-72. So, my quals were
computed at a different rate.
Company clerk was an idiot and I never did know how they were computed. I
just assumed they were all based on 25 hours per award.

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 12:20 PM Gary Thewlis via Vhfcn-l <vhfcn-l at vhfcn.org>
wrote:

> I did check and send out the air medal criteria, but then I got curious and
> checked my own records.
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> My DD214 states Air Medal with 20 oak leaf clusters.
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> My flight record sheet shows 1586 combat hours.
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> All of that was CH-47 hours, and it spans from end of November, 1967 to
> almost end of June, 1969.
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> If I ignore 122.5 hours flown in November and December of 1967 and just
> lump
> them with the rest, and if I assume all my hours were logged as resupply:
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> *       24 = 1 air medal award
> *       20 air medals = 480 qualifying hours
> *       ½ hour resupply awards for 480 = 960 qualifying missions
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> Lord.
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> I have to think it likely meant what we called sorties, a flight from a
> base
> camp resupply area to delivery and back. We flew numerous “missions” of
> that
> type each day.
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> But this is all speculation, no way to really know.
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> Maybe Don is right. Depends on the company clerks doing the job. And if
> they
> passed basic math in grade school………
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> Gary Thewlis
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