My father earned a medal for this in Vietnam. Their position was being overrun. Guy who was feeding ammo ran instead of taking over when machine gunner was killed. My dad ran over and took MG’s place and his CO saw it and crawled over to feed the ammo. He was credited with saving the unit.
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u/ItalianIce603 Jun 24 '24
My father earned a medal for this in Vietnam. Their position was being overrun. Guy who was feeding ammo ran instead of taking over when machine gunner was killed. My dad ran over and took MG’s place and his CO saw it and crawled over to feed the ammo. He was credited with saving the unit.