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Operation Frequent Wind and Vietnam Service Medal

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Otis Willie PIO The American War Library

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Oct 12, 2009, 11:56:34 PM10/12/09
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Operation Frequent Wind and Vietnam Service Medal

All personnel who participated in Operation Frequent Wind (the evacuation of Saigon) are now automatically authorized the Vietnam Service Medal and Vietnam Cross of Gallantry. Also automatically authorized is the Humanitarian Service Medal.

Separately, all USMC and selected land-based USN personnel who participated in Operation Frequent Wind are additionally authorized the Vietnam Civil Actions Medal.

Seperately, USMC and USN personnel who were hostily challenged by enemy or friendly forces during their efforts to rescue designated personnel during Operation Frequent Wind are authorized the Combat Action Ribbon. Authorization of the CAR
must be approved either by the USMC or USN Awards Branches.

REFERENCE: http://www.amervets.com/replacement/vn.htm#isr

NOTE: Eligible personnel should ensure this Service Period acknowledgment is listed on your current 201A Military Award Report:
http://www.amervets.com/201areq.htm (or... amervets.com/201a)

Contact Person for this posting: Roger Simpson, PIO
Public Information Office: http://www.13105320634.com
The American War Library: http://www.amervets.com/
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Phone / Fax: 1-310-532-0634


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May 1, 2016, 6:31:24 PM5/1/16
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What is the OFFICIAL basis of your statements that say veterans who participated In Operation Frequent Wind are automatically awarded the Vietnam Service Medal and the Vietnam Gallantry cross? Particularly as it applies to Bluewater Navy participants? The 1974 blanket authorization by the south Vietnamese government only applies to In country forces, not blue water navy units.


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Dec 28, 2017, 4:31:30 PM12/28/17
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The Vietnam Service Medal has been authorized since 2003, as a part of the defense authorization bill of that year. You do have to "exchange" your AFEM that you received for Frequent Wind.
I wrote to the Archives Center in St. Louis on an unrelated matter, and they said I was authorized the Cross of Gallantry, and the Vietnam Campaign Medal as well. That didn't seem right, as everything previously said you had to do 6 months to rate the Campaign Medal. Thus far, the only confirmation I can find is on the same Amvets site.
That doesn't mean they are wrong, as the U.S. Navy's official manual concerning awards, dated 2016, still doesn't have the authorization for the VSM.
I was a Marine during the evacuation, and did go in country, but I don't think that makes a difference concerning these awards. Hope this helps.

dolf

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Dec 28, 2017, 7:03:30 PM12/28/17
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It is not the stories of war which are its valour but that America or any
other country adhered to universal principles (eg. such as DAOist
meta-descriptor prototypes) of right as the basis for any just cause of the
prosecution of war.

In a similar manner to Germany’s Nazi Party, Communist China and Vietnamese
likewise abandoned these principles of truth for some other institutional
imperative.

It ought to be remembered that Seventh-day Adventists {#509} have as
non-combatants and pacifists always been faithful to Principles of
INTELLECTUS AS GENITIVE VOLUNTĀTIS as religious liberty which adopted as
part of our Commonwealth in 1901 and modelled upon earlier American
Constitutional precedents.

<http://www.grapple369.com/a-brief-history-of-us-sdas-military-service-v2.pdf>

With the resurgence of the tradition of TAOism within China which is
entirely compatible with Jewish / Christian Torah {#509} belief in
INTELLECTUS AS GENITIVE VOLUNTĀTIS it as the two boekends of occidental
(West) / oriental (East) world view spheres harbingers the decline of Roman
Catholic / Islamic idolatry.

In this modern age, there is an increased selfishness amongst war veterans
to claim honours of preeminence (Ichiban #1) as sentimentality which is
associated to the dishonourable #65 - Soldiers of Roman Empire Governance
(or the seven Papal Bulls and Knights Templars) and in so doing forget the
Acts of Apostles narrative of the Roman soldier Cornelius within Acts 10
which is associated to the Jerusalem Temple prayer times that negate
Catholic/Islamic/Freemasonry et al occupancy of this most sacred site as
the home of Israel’s capital.

Well may you accept your war awards, but you cannot as do the Knights
Templar International, make any authentic religious claim of Jewish /
Christian association to either Jesus Christ or Almighty God in deference
to our own prerogative religious claim.

To do so is fraudulent, dishonest and blasphemy.

We are coming for you by lawful means only, but I forewarn that you ought
to be afraid, as ever so afraid.

<http://www.grapple369.com/images/Medical_%20Caduceus.png>

You will not see our motion, as it occurs under the shadow of the
Almighty’s wings, when we eventually do make our strike upon you, it will
be as a venomous bite of a serpent for which there is no known antidote.

We komen alleen met wettige middelen voor jou, maar ik waarschuw je dat je
bang zou moeten zijn, zoals altijd bang.

<http://www.grapple369.com/images/Medical_%20Caduceus.png>

U zult onze beweging niet zien, zoals het gebeurt onder de schaduw van de
vleugels van de Almachtige, wanneer wij uiteindelijk onze slag op u slaan,
het zal zijn als een giftige beet van een slang waarvoor er geen tegengif
bekend is.
--


SEE ALSO: *INVALIDATING* *THE* *ORTHODOX* *AND* *ROMAN* *CATHOLIC*
*CHURCH'S* *CLAIM* *TO* *JUBILEE2000* *AS* *BEING* *DELUSIONAL* *AND*
*FRAUDULENT*

Private Street on the edge of the Central Business District dated 16th
May, 2000 - This report is prepared in response to a TP00/55 as a Notice of
an Application for Planning Permit

- <http://www.grapple369.com/jubilee2000.html>

SEE ALSO: HYPOSTATIS as DAO OF NATURE (Chinese: ZIRAN) / COURSE (Greek:
TROCHOS) OF NATURE (Greek: GENESIS) [James 3:6]

Chinese HAN Dynasty (206 BCE - 220CE) Hexagon Trigrams to Tetragram
assignments proposed by Yang Hsiung (53BCE - 18CE) which by 4BCE
(translation published within English as first European language in 1993),
first appeared in draft form as a meta-thesis titled T'AI HSUAN CHING {ie.
Canon of Supreme Mystery} on Natural Divination associated with the theory
of number, annual seasonal chronology and astrology reliant upon the seven
visible planets as cosmological mother image and the zodiac.

It shows the ZIRAN as the DAO of NATURE / COURSE-trochos OF
NATURE-genesis [James 3:6] as HYPOSTATIS comprising #81 trinomial
tetragrammaton x 4.5 day = #364.5 day / year as HOMOIOS THEORY OF NUMBER
which is an amalgam of the 64 hexagrams as binomial trigrams / 81 as
trinomial tetragrammaton rather than its encapsulated contrived use as the
microcosm to redefine the macrocosm as the quintessence of the Pythagorean
[Babylonian] as binomial canon of transposition as HETEROS THEORY OF
NUMBER.

- <http://www.grapple369.com/nature.html>

The Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities No. 43 of Act 2006
defines a "PERSON MEANS A HUMAN BEING” and the question is, if it is
permissible to extend this definition to be a "PERSON MEANS A HUMAN BEING
AS A CONSCIOUS REALITY OF HOMO[iOS] SAPIEN[T] WHO IS INSTANTIATED WITHIN
THE TEMPORAL REALITY AS THEN THE CAUSE FOR REASONING AND RATIONALITY."

That my mathematical theoretical noumenon defines the meta-descriptor
prototypes which are prerequisite to the BEING of HOMO[iOS] SAPIEN[T] as
EXISTENCE.

- http://www.grapple369.com/Grapple.zip (Download resources)

After all the ENNEAD of THOTH and not the Roman Catholic Eucharist,
expresses an Anthropic Cosmological Principle which appears within its
geometric conception as being equivalent to the Pythagorean
TETRAD/TETRACTYS

dolf

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Dec 28, 2017, 7:15:35 PM12/28/17
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You have never once in over 22 years shown a respect and after the expiry
of 2017 it will never be accepted from you.
> <http://www.grapple369.com/images/Medical_Caduceus.png>
>
> You will not see our motion, as it occurs under the shadow of the
> Almighty’s wings, when we eventually do make our strike upon you, it will
> be as a venomous bite of a serpent for which there is no known antidote.
>
> We komen alleen met wettige middelen voor jou, maar ik waarschuw je dat je
> bang zou moeten zijn, zoals altijd bang.
>
> <http://www.grapple369.com/images/Medical_Caduceus.png>
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