Talk:Vietnam Service Medal

Poll Added
I observed that another user added a link to a Poll that was being conducted about South Vietnam. I shortened the link name so it didnt take up an entire line, but upon review of Wilk guidelines, putting a link to a poll might be a violation (i.e. conducting opinion polls, propaganda measures, etc). See: What Wikipedia is not. I did not revert until getting other opinins. Thoughts? Husnock 5 Nov 04

Added Operation Frequent Wind per the following USMC document, para 4. http://www.usmc.mil/maradmins/maradmin2000.nsf/d50a617f5ac75ae085256856004f3afc/74590245094a6d6885256e920074ce0f?OpenDocument

order of military service medals
I am trying to do a memorial for my deceased brother-in-law. I have his medals from Vietnam and I was wondering if anyone knows what order they are suppose to go in. The Cross of Gallantry Medal, Vietnam Military Merit Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal, The Purple Heart, National Defense Service Medal and Vietnam Service Medal. I would appreciate any help I can get. My email is jessica.dyansty@hughes.net. ::Dear Jessica: ****I'm a Vietnam Vet, so here's the order:  American decorations go first, then foreign medals. So it's Purple Heart, National Defense, Vietnam Service. Then for the foreign medals, as I recall it goes Vietnam Military Merit Medal, Vietnam Cross of Gallantry, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal. If he got the Purple Heart he might have gotten the Vietnam Wound Medal also. And he would have gotten a few others, unit citations, Good Conduct Medal, campaign stars, etc. That Vietnam Military Merit Medal is an important, high-ranking decoration, it's modeled after the French Medal Militaire and is a collector's item. The Cross of Gallantry is the equivalent of the French Croix de Guerre and is modeled after it (crossed swords will indicate a war medal). Silver Bayonet (talk) 22:26, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Error Correction Needed:

The end of the Article discusses the Vietnam Campaign Medal as having the same eligibility criteria as the Vietnam Service Medal. This is not the case. The Campaign Medal requires a six month period of combat or combat support, while the Vietnam Service Medal has no such requirement. In other words, you must have received the Vietnam Service Medal and been in combat or combat support for 6 months to qualify for the Vietnam Campaign Medal.

See the Wikipedia Entry on the Vietnam Campaign Medal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Campaign_Medal

W. G. Davis wgd@vetsnet.us

Jeff4 (talk) 21:22, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Garbled "disqualifying factor" text?
[ This edit] (from 2007) added the following sentence to the article: "For those service members who supported Vietnam Operations from another country within Southeast Asia, DoD maintains (proximity to threat) as the disqualifying factor for Vietnam Service Medal eligibility."  This sentence doesn't make sense to me. I would think it might make sense if it were talking about a "qualifying factor" (rather than a "disqualifying factor"), but I hesitate to just jump in and change it in case there is some US military lingo involved here. If this sentence is accurate, I would strongly recommend that it be reworded so as to be clear to an average reader who has not been intimately involved with the armed forces and insider jargon. — Rich wales 17:35, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
 * After doing some research in the matter, I have come across a "mirror" of the paragraph in question (as well as the first section of the article) that appears to be the source used to cut and paste from for the Wikipedia article. Here is a link:

hdforums.com/forum/off-topic/319675-vietnam-vet-wanabees-7.html.
 * The post in the forum is #68 and was written by a poster named "Range Rat". I will be rewording the article to conform to Department of Defense standards for the VSM. I had to remove the "http://www." mark up off of the above web address to let it post here because the site is on the Wikipedia Spam Filter list. Cuprum17 (talk) 18:58, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Last Serving Recipients?
Presumably by now anyone who had this medal would no longer be serving in the Armed forces, or their numbers would be very, very few. Would there be information as when the last recipients who held this medal left the forces?


 * Probably not...This former Army Specialist Five who served in Vietnam from 1966-1968 would have been one of the last Coast Guardsmen to wear a VSM and I retired from the Coast Guard Reserve in 2007 after 24 years of combined Army, Army Reserve and Coast Guard Reserve time with a 20 year break in service between my Army Reserve service and my Coast Guard Reserve service. The break in service would be the reason for my having Vietnam service time and still in the service in 2007. Someone on active duty with service in 1975 and 30 years time would have retired in 2005. The last Coast Guard Commandant who actually served in Vietnam was ADM James M. Loy, who retired from the service in 2002. He commanded a patrol boat with Coast Guard Squadron One. He had no break in service, but admirals are generally exempt from mandatory maximum time in service rules. Cuprum17 (talk) 23:32, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

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