marksmanship medal ---

[michael Dobson]

Did any of you ever think of this one ------- we shot zillions of rounds of ammo --- often with a SEAL or River Crew praying it hit close to them and accurately ------------- but did any of us ever get a "marksmanship medal" ????    

[Paul Albertine]

can you really put Marksmanship and Automatic weapons in same sentence, only kidding....  most of the gentleman I flew with were damn good with the 60 and 50, rockets...maybe not so much, remember a lot of rockets running into each other, no doubt set up...    we should get some financial remuneration from the brass companies!!!

[michael Dobson]

we should have saved all of our brass ..... it would have taken a ship to get it all to Japan to sell, but the profits  would have thrown a great party for the maintainers

[michael Dobson]

The reason I asked this question originally is because I recently saw a picture of a newly graduated Hospital Corpsman that had his marksmanship medal ........ isn't it a bit ironic that we shot millions of rounds, and there was never a marksmanship award given in the squadron ( That I can trace) other than whether the pilot, Carl Nelson, or I , could hit closest to a hootch with the M-79 ----- 6 packs were always the prize ------   I'm sure we weren't the only ones to do something similar ----- anybody else get in on the betting ??



 

[Howard Jacobs ROH]

I never had a chance to make a bet.... I was trained/qualified by Ruteye and Lee... I was pretty deadly so I don't think I would have any takers....(snicker).