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1. What South Vietnamese decoration was issued to almost all US soldiers in Vietnam?
2. For a period of time the RVN government awarded this highest gallantry award posthumously to any enlisted and NCO US soldier killed in action.
3. The RVN Campaign Medal looks quite nice... yet there is something odd about its ribbon device.
4. It's 1969. You've just completed your first tour in Vietnam with the Army and wear your ribbons on your dress as you head home. Which of the following would you usually NOT expect to have on your jacket?
5. For your exceptional service as colonel in Vietnam the ARVN award you this very prestigious medal. But when you first see it you think it's kind of a joke; the thing has a plaited ribbon on a jagged background, tassels, a rosette ...
6. What was the main problem with US soldiers being awarded the RVN Wound Medal?
7. There was the Bronze Star Medal and another medal, the Silver Star. But was there something like a Gold Star medal?
8. Out of the 246 Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipients THREE were
9. Which of these could a superb pilot not possibly have been awarded during the Vietnam War?
10. More than 3 million US servicemen served in the Vietnam War, of which more than 150,000 were wounded. Approximately how many Purple Hearts were awarded?
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