Platoon Leader awarded Silver Star for conduct under fire [lead tank took mult IEDs, RPGs; blogger]

1st Infantry Division News ^ | Jan 14, 2005 [?] | unknown

[Mike Fieschko]

1st Lt Prakash's blog is at Armor Geddon. Found this through Grunt Doc blog.

[ProudVet77]

“He sets a very high standard for every one of us. I guarantee veterans of the past are standing very tall right now.”

With the exception of JFKII.

[PatriotCJC]

That's very HU-AH!

[wildcatf4f3]

Fantastic!

[combat_boots]

Attaboy! Proud of you. Very, very proud of this man.

[TChris]

WTG, soldier! Ya just gotta love a solid, brave tanker. :-)

[Valin]

Consider yourself flagged

[Valin]

Moving south back through the city, they encountered no resistance. Once they neared their objective, however, Prakash identified and engaged an enemy re-supply truck, destroying the vehicle and its contents.

“We blasted it with a main round from about 100 meters away. The thing just blew to shreds,” he said. “You could see the tubes from the launchers go flying in the air.”


I'll just bet it did! A 120mm round has a...tendancy to do that.

[Calpernia]

>>>Consider yourself flagged

You might have to consider me fired :(
My last ping, I accidently did 'cut and paste' vs. 'copy and paste' and lost my ping list.
Xzins, do you still have your copy of your ping list?

Platoon Leader awarded Silver Star for conduct under fire

[Calpernia]

Tonk, I just screwed up and lost my ping list.

Can you ping this?

[hchutch]

Amazing.

[xzins]

Silver Star Ping!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Tonk, I just screwed up and lost my ping list.

Can you ping this?

10 posted on 01/24/2005 11:03:42 AM PST by Calpernia

PING!

[mark502inf]

As the lead vehicle, Prakash’s tank took the brunt of the attack

And as a good young Army leader, Prakash was leading his men from the front.

[Calpernia]

Thank you :)

[StarCMC]

Bet this will be the lead story on tonight's evening news!

/sarcasm

[Calpernia]

I would really like to get a FR TV started.

I wouldn't even know how to begin to do that though.

Can you imagine how fast the MSMs would have to clean themselves up to keep from losing ratings?

[Terabitten]

Damn. The kid keeps this up, we might have to make him Infantry. :)

[beachn4fun]

I just love stories like this. Kudos

[colorado tanker]

Glad to see this outstanding young officer met the real standard for a Silver Star, not the John Kerry standard. Hooah!