How about some recognition for veterans of the smaller operations. Dominican Republic, post-war Korean DMZ, Beirut, Grenada, Central America, Panama, Somalia, Haiti, and the Balkans. Those men also went into harms way for our country, many fought and some died. Naturally the bigger wars will be talked about more, but vets of smaller ops should not be completely forgotten.

I agree,no matter the size of the operation our troops in uniform should be honored.No matter where in the world they were deployed or how long it lasted.

I'll be honest. That has bugged me for a long time. Most of these events are not even recognized with a ribbon or the such.

The Korean War is lost as far as alot of people go. Its awful sickning.

I had a brother, a Navy Lifer, that served in the Korean War including evacuating Marines off the beach at one time and he used to go bananas when he was told he had taken part "Only In A Police Action - it was not a war".

He told one Officer (a Feather Merchant as they called them) that "You can call it what you want but I did/am doing the same GD thing I did in WW II in Africa, Sicily, Italy etc."

He got his medal and a medal ribbon in 2004 and that was a lot of years to wait!!

Sgtleo

indeed

Dave82nd:
To open this thread, I would offer the Cold War incidents that mostly never made the news. The 50 year period is replete with these incidents. Korea, The Taiwan strait, China off shore islands, Central America, Panama canal, all have thier hot spot incidents. A lot of these are in Ops Sec logs and will never make the forums as they shouldnt.
One I can offer is the prevention of another Pueblo incident, by the USS Kitty Hawk, circa 1969. A fly over by the Aardvarks and the A6A Tigers drove off 2 N. Korean gunboats, about to capture one of ours. This one made the news and put some ribbons on a few.
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