[Vhfcn-l] Viet Nam Air Medals

[Lance Pinamonte]

   Our company never recorded flight hours for enlisted crew members, I kept track of them for myself, little over 1800 as both Gunner and CE.. Gotta couple AM with V devices, but no record of flight hours, was on flight status six months before I left for country. Flew as test flight tech at Hunter..  

    The Kid Co-A Bulldogs, 1st avn Bn, 1st Inf Div, 68-70 ..

> On Oct 16, 2019, at 4:36 PM, Warren Moore via Vhfcn-l <vhfcn-l at vhfcn.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> My DD214 states Air Medal with 20 oak leaf clusters.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> My flight record sheet shows 1586 combat hours.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> All of that was CH-47 hours, and it spans from end of November, 1967 to
>> almost end of June, 1969.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> *       24 = 1 air medal award
>> *       20 air medals = 480 qualifying hours
>> *       ½ hour resupply awards for 480 = 960 qualifying missions
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Lord.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> But this is all speculation, no way to really know.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Maybe Don is right. Depends on the company clerks doing the job. And if
>> they
>> passed basic math in grade school………
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Gary Thewlis
>> 
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