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1LT Creech

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    1LT Creech reacted to Capt Childs in Great SOFIC 2018 photos   
    A great set of photos from the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference (SOFIC) held in Tampa earlier this year.
    Mainly featuring the 160th SOAR (A) Nightstalkers and their MH-60M & MH-6M helos along with FRIES demonstrations, you can also see SOC-Rs & CRRCs.
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/duane_88/sets/72157696936865564/with/41597403465/
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    1LT Creech reacted to ThinBlueLine in (Recycled) Palmer, Samuel - Application   
    Last Name, First Name: Palmer, Samuel
    ArmA III Player ID: 76561198062138146
    Age: 25
     
    Have you served in a realism unit?: Yes
    If so detail which unit, time in service, rank, billet: 15th MEU,~ 1 Year, ,LCE Sabre 1-1 SL - 5811 Military Policemen
     
    Desired Duty:
    Why are you applying to join 4th MRB?: I was forced to stop MilSim with the 15th MEU due to life constraints and would like to get back into the community. Multiple members I associated with joined this unit and I would like to catch up.
     
    How did you find out about the 4th MRB?: GySgt Coake
     
    Confirm you understand the 4th MRB is an immersion-orientated, role-playing realism unit:
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    1LT Creech reacted to Muniz in (Withdrawn) Muniz, Christopher - Application   
    I do not wish to continue with my application for the unit, thank you.
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    1LT Creech reacted to GySgt (Ret) Spencer in Spencer's Video Thread   
    This is not your typical training or Operation video.  This is a short video showing a couple recent training accidents.
     
    I intended for people to see the lighter side of our unit and a little more about your personalities.
     
    I want to make different kind of videos to make it fresh and different; especially different from anyone else's Arma 3 unit videos.
     
    I hope you enjoy this.
     
    Watch in High Definition!
     

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    1LT Creech reacted to CW2 (Ret) Voce in MSgt. John A. Chapman has been awarded the MoH   
    I know that we are a USMC/USAR unit, however I'm a little partial to this story. 
     
    Then TSgt. John A. Chapman was a USAF Combat Controller, tasked with providing Tactical Air Control support for a Seal Team in Afghanistan in 2002. During Operation Anaconda, during the Battle of Takur Ghar, TSgt. Chapman and his teammates were tasked with seizing a mountain top in order to better coordinate air support from numerous aircraft in the area. Once the helicopter crested the hill, it began receiving effective fire, and once the helicopter tried to peel off, a member of the team accidentally fell from the helo. The rest of the story is best given in his Air Force Cross Citation, as well as his upgrade to the MoH:
     
     
     
     
     
    "The President of the United States of America, authorized by Title 10, Section 8742, U.S.C., awards the Air Force Cross to TSgt John Chapman for extraordinary heroism in military operation against an armed enemy of the United States as a 24th Special Tactics Squadron, Combat Controller in the vicinity of Gardez, in the eastern highlands of Afghanistan, on March 4, 2002. On this date, during his helicopter insertion for a reconnaissance and time sensitive targeting close air support mission, Sergeant Chapman's aircraft came under heavy machine gun fire and received a direct hit from a rocket propelled grenade which caused a United States Navy sea-air-land team member to fall from the aircraft. Though heavily damaged, the aircraft egressed the area and made an emergency landing seven kilometers away. Once on the ground Sergeant Chapman established communication with an AC-130 gunship to insure the area was secure while providing close air support coverage for the entire team. He then directed the gunship to begin the search for the missing team member. He requested, coordinated, and controlled the helicopter that extracted the stranded team and aircrew members. These actions limited the exposure of the aircrew and team to hostile fire. Without regard for his own life Sergeant Chapman volunteered to rescue his missing team member from an enemy strong hold. Shortly after insertion, the team made contact with the enemy. Sergeant Chapman engaged and killed two enemy personnel. He continued to advance reaching the enemy position then engaged a second enemy position, a dug-in machine gun nest. At this time, the rescue team came under effective enemy fire from three directions. From close range he exchanged fire with the enemy from minimum personal cover until he succumbed to multiple wounds. His engagement and destruction of the first enemy position and advancement on the second position enabled his team to move to cover and break enemy contact. In his own words, his Navy sea-air-land team leader credits Sergeant Chapman unequivocally with saving the lives of the entire rescue team. Through his extraordinary heroism, superb airmanship, aggressiveness in the face of the enemy, and the dedication to the service of his country, Sergeant Chapman reflects the highest credit upon himself and the United States Air Force."
     
     
    The citation accompanying his upgrade to the Medal of Honor reads as follows:
     
    "Technical Sergeant John A. Chapman distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism as an Air Force Special Tactics Combat Controller, attached to a Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Team conducting reconnaissance operations in Takur Ghar, Afghanistan, on March 4, 2002. During insertion, the team’s helicopter was ambushed causing a teammate to fall into an entrenched group of enemy combatants below. Sergeant Chapman and the team voluntarily reinserted onto the snow-capped mountain, into the heart of a known enemy stronghold to rescue one of their own. Without regard for his own safety, Sergeant Chapman immediately engaged, moving in the direction of the closest enemy position despite coming under heavy fire from multiple directions. He fearlessly charged an enemy bunker, up a steep incline in thigh-deep snow and into hostile fire, directly engaging the enemy. Upon reaching the bunker, Sergeant Chapman assaulted and cleared the position, killing all enemy occupants. With complete disregard for his own life, Sergeant Chapman deliberately moved from cover only 12 meters from the enemy, and exposed himself once again to attack a second bunker, from which an emplaced machine gun was firing on his team. During this assault from an exposed position directly in the line of intense fire, Sergeant Chapman was struck and injured by enemy fire. Despite severe, mortal wounds, he continued to fight relentlessly, sustaining a violent engagement with multiple enemy personnel before making the ultimate sacrifice. By his heroic actions and extraordinary valor, sacrificing his life for the lives of his teammates, Technical Sergeant Chapman upheld the highest traditions of military service and reflected great credit upon himself and the United States Air Force."
     
     
    Rest easy, MSgt. Chapman. We have the watch.
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    1LT Creech reacted to Gambino in (Accepted) Gambino, Vinny - Application   
    Last Name, First Name: Gambino, Vinny
    ArmA III Player ID: 76561197982216997
    Age: 33
     
    Have you served in a realism unit?: Yes
    If so detail which unit, time in service, rank, billet: 15th MEU - TIS 2,361 - Echo Company CO/XO - Delta Platoon CO - Cmd Staff
     
    Desired Duty: 0372 Critical Skills Operator (CSO)
    Why are you applying to join 4th MRB?:
    1) Want to try something different, I have been in the 15th since 08.
    2) Some of my friends and fellow unit members joined this unit and recommended it to me.
     
    How did you find out about the 4th MRB?: Vernardakis
     
    Confirm you understand the 4th MRB is an immersion-orientated, role-playing realism unit: yes
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    1LT Creech reacted to CW3 (Ret) A. B. Johnson in (Accepted) Johnson, Alex - Application   
    Last Name, First Name Johnson, Alex
    Arma 3 Player ID: 76561198042333692
    Age: 22
     
    Have you served in a realism unit? Yes
    If so, detail which unit, time in service, rank, billet: 3rdAIU - riflemen
    15thMEU - 1537 TIS - Sgt - 0311 Riflemen, 1833 AAV crewman, 0365 Infantry squad leader.
     
    Desired Duty: 09W Warrant Officer Candidate, Aviator
    Why are you applying to join the 4th MRB?: Due to issues involved with the current state of arma3. My connection with the 15thMEU servers is kicked constantly due to a ping kicker installed. I have no grievances about this. I just want to play arma again without being kicked and with people I know.
     
    How did you find about the 4th MRB?: Ingram, Creech. Need I say more
     
    Confirm you understand the 4th MRB is an immersion-orientated, role-playing realism unit: Yes
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    1LT Creech reacted to GySgt (Ret) Spencer in Spencer's Video Thread   
    Tuesday night mission, back to Village Tlidjen.  
     
    Watch in High Definition and "Like" on YouTube to increase our rating.
     
    Enjoy men.
     

     
     
    Part 1 of 2
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    1LT Creech reacted to GySgt (Ret) Spencer in Spencer's Video Thread   
    HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!  DOWN WITH THE BRITISH!
     
    Part 2 of 06-18.
     
    Watch in High Definition and as always, "Like" to increase potential viewership of our YouTube Channel.
     
    Thanks men.
     
     

     
     
     

    From the movie, "THE GREAT ESCAPE"
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    1LT Creech reacted to Sgt Davis in (Accepted) Davis, Brendan - Application   
    Last Name, First Name: Davis, Brendan
    Arma 3 Player ID: 76561198065471308
    Age: 19
     
    Have you served in a realism unit?: Yes
    If so detail which unit, time in service, rank, billet: 15th MEU Realism Unit
    https://15thmeu.net/index.php?/profile/269-sgt-ret-b-davis/
     
    Desired Duty: 0372 Critical Skills Operator
    Why are you applying to join 4th MRB?: Have some old friends in this unit and I want something new then what is going on in the 15th MEU.
     
    How did you find out about the 4th MRB?: 15th MEU members and GySgt Coake
     
    Confirm you understand the 4th MRB is an immersion-orientated, role-playing realism unit: Yes
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    1LT Creech reacted to GySgt (Ret) Spencer in Spencer's USMC History Thread   
    I didn't make this and it should not be a reflection on the great Brits who are part of the 4th MRB.
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    1LT Creech reacted to GySgt (Ret) Spencer in Spencer's USMC History Thread   
    (Since North Korea is in the news lately, I thought I'd ask this question)
     
     
    When did the US Marines first fight in North Korea?
     
    If you answered in 1950 during the Korean War, you would be wrong!
     
    Here is the story.
     
    The “Hermit Kingdom” had been under domination by China for many centuries, however the people were widely believed in the West to be far superior to the Chinese in mental and physical resources.  They were a barbaric and fierce people.  In 1866, the American ship, General Sherman carrying foreign notions for trade to Korea, grounded off the Korean coast.  Her entire crew was massacred.  A French Schooner went to Korea to trade and the natives were said to have cut them up and pickled them.  Around this time a French doctor was captured, skinned and crucified on a beach while the Frenchmen on board a ship off shore watched helplessly before being driven off.  A French punitive expedition was sent a short time later revealed a strong anti-foreign sentiment and brutal treatment of foreigners.
     
    Korea was located along important trade routes in the far east.  In 1870 the US dispatched the American Minister to China, Frederick Ferdinand Low, to Korea to secure a treaty for the protection of shipwrecked mariners, and if possible to obtain commercial advantages.  Low sailed from Nagasaki Japan in May 1871 aboard the USS Colorado, the flagship of Rear Admiral John Rodgers, then the Commanding Officer of the Asiatic Squadron, along with two other US Naval ships.  Anticipating the possibility of a hostile reception, they wisely took along a battalion of US Marines.  (If they didn’t, I wouldn’t be telling this story!)
     
    They arrived at the end of May, 1871.  Minister Low deputized his Acting Secretary, Edward Drew, to go ashore and interview Korean officials.  The Koreans weren’t especially cooperative although he tried to assure them of the peaceful purpose of the visit.  He told them the Naval ships off the coast were only taking soundings of their waters and making surveys of the shores to which the Koreans made no apparent objection.
     
    The US Ships, Colorado, Alaska, and Benecia moved along the coast until they reached the lower end of the Kangwha Island where a line of forts connected by a wall and facing the river, began.  At that time a single shot from the forts initiated heavy fire from masked batteries and other forts along the face of the hill.  The US Naval ships responded and soon silenced the Korean guns.  The initial reaction was to go back and teach the Koreans a lesson.  Admiral Rodgers and Minister Low decided to give the Korean government a reasonable time (ten days) to apologize.  No apology came.  Admiral Rodgers ordered the forts destroyed and held “long enough to demonstrate our ability to punish such offenses at pleasure.”
     
    651 Marines, supplemented with sailors, and howitzers were put ashore to complete the objective.  The point chosen seemed a good spot, but it turned out the shore area was most unfavorable due to a broad belt of soft mud and deep gullies.  The Marines would encounter difficult terrain throughout the operation.  Lt Commander Cassel reported, “by superhuman exertions on the part of my men…” in describing the difficulties moving into positions.   The line of forts were assaulted one at a time.  On June 11th, the Marines assaulted the last and main fort, Kwagsonshin, called the Citadel.  They had to charge downslope, then up the opposite hill to the fort.
     
    In the final assault, 243 Koreans were killed.  Three American’s were killed.  Five batteries and 481 pieces of field artillery were destroyed in the operation.  The Marines had to do much of the fighting hand to hand due to faulty rifle and pistol cartridges.
     
    As would be the case time and time again throughout our history, US Marines, landed on a foreign hostile shore, in some part of the world most of them never heard of, engaged a numerically superior force on their own territory, and successfully completed their mission.
     

     
    Painting depicts US Marines landing in Korea (10 miles from Inchon) in June 1871, struggling with their equipment in heavy mud flats.
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    1LT Creech reacted to GySgt (Ret) Spencer in Spencer's Video Thread   
    From Operation Hard Spear 04-18.  Simple video I wrapped up late last night.
     
    Watch in High Definition, and "Like" on our YouTube channel.
     
    Thanks
     
     

     
     
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    1LT Creech reacted to SSgt Stone in (Accepted) Olsen, Brian - Application   
    Mr. Olsen,
     
    Welcome to the 4th MRB Realism Unit! I have processed you in as a HM3 because of your prior service. Please report in to the MSOS forum at your earliest convenience.
     
    Respectfully Submitted,
    SSgt Stone
    Recruiting Office Detachment Personnel
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    1LT Creech reacted to HM3 Olsen in (Accepted) Olsen, Brian - Application   
    Last Name, First Name: Olsen, Brian
    ArmA III Player ID: 76561198061961449
    Age: 18
     
    Have you served in a realism unit?: Yes
    If so detail which unit, time in service, rank, billet: 15th MEU (SOC), 865 TiS, HM3,
     
    Desired Duty: HM-8427 Fleet Marine Force Reconnaissance Corpsman (SARC)
    Why are you applying to join 4th MRB?: To once again enjoy ArmA with a cohesive unit and to be part of a good community
     
    How did you find out about the 4th MRB?: Creech, Ingram, Coake, etc.
     
    Confirm you understand the 4th MRB is an immersion-orientated, role-playing realism unit: I do indeed
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    1LT Creech reacted to Green in Greens Video and Picture Thread   
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    1LT Creech reacted to GySgt (Ret) Spencer in Spencer's USMC History Thread   
    Couldn't decide if this should go in my History Thread or here.  It's kinda funny and kinda historical!  You decide.
     
     
    PS:  That is obviously Camp Pendleton in the background.  Any real Marine would know that.
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    1LT Creech reacted to Sgt Boyle in (Accepted) Boyle, Chance - Application   
    Last Name, First Name: Boyle, Chance
    ArmA III Player ID: 76561198026834670
    Age: 34
     
    Have you served in a realism unit?: Yes
    If so detail which unit, time in service, rank, billet: 15th MEU, 785, Sgt,
     
    Desired Duty: 0372 Critical Skills Operator (CSO)
    Why are you applying to join 4th MRB?: Need some Arma back in my life. Enjoyed my time in 15th MEU back in the day but am looking for something a little smaller, also I want to fly and would like to move to aviation once an opening is available.
     
    How did you find out about the 4th MRB?: Creech, Ingram, Sellers
     
    Confirm you understand the 4th MRB is an immersion-orientated, role-playing realism unit: yes
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    1LT Creech reacted to SSgt Richter in (Accepted) Fischer, Jonah - Application   
    Mr. Fischer

    Application accepted. Within the next hour, you will receive permission for your training pipeline. Check the PHASE I sub-board for the next available scheduled Recruit Training. If you are attending a Recruit Training check each thread for available times and sign up for it in the "Recruit Training" Forum. There will be a thread to sign in.

    In Summary:
    Step 1. Welcome aboard. You will receive permissions soon.
    Step 2. Sign up for a "Recruit Training" in the Recruit Training Forum.

    Thank you and once again, welcome aboard Recruit.

    Respectfully Submitted,
    SSgt Richter
    Recruiting Office Detachment Personnel
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    1LT Creech reacted to SSgt Richter in (Accepted) Sellers, Joshua - Application   
    Mr. Sellers

    Welcome to the 4th MRB Realism Unit! I have processed you in as a Sergeant because of your prior service. Please report in to the MSOS forum at your earliest convenience.

    Respectfully Submitted,
    SSgt Richter
    Recruiting Office Detachment Personnel 
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    1LT Creech got a reaction from GySgt B. Crowley in Spencer's USMC History Thread   
    Spencer, I have have been eagerly awaiting your post about this. What an excellent read and great way to portray all such history. Thank you so much for this! I even learned a few things that I had not yet heard. 
     
    To piggy back on Crowley, I also find it amazing that with the civil war many of the men in combat against each other were related. Father vs. Son, bother vs. brother, etc. We look at our times today and how messed up/difficult it is. I couldn't fathom having to take up arms against my immediate kin. Really puts things into perspective. 
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    1LT Creech reacted to MSgt Sellers in (Accepted) Sellers, Joshua - Application   
    Last Name, First Name: Sellers, Joshua
    ArmA III Player ID: 76561197976710224
    Age: 29

    Have you served in a realism unit?: Yes
    If so detail which unit, time in service, rank, billet: 15th MEU, 934 TIS, HM3,

    Desired Duty: 0372 Critical Skills Operator
    Why are you applying to join 4th MRB?: A few good friends from the 15th MEU are here. I'm looking for a dedicated, close-knit community, Marine Corps oriented, and from what I've seen this is it.

    How did you find out about the 4th MRB?: Ingram, Creech, Coake

    Confirm you understand the 4th MRB is an immersion-orientated, role-playing realism unit: yes
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    1LT Creech reacted to GySgt B. Crowley in Military Humor   
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    1LT Creech reacted to GySgt B. Crowley in Spencer's USMC History Thread   
    One of the the most amazing things I find about the Civil War is that most of the experienced officers who fought against each other had previously fought together during the Mexican-American War. 
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    1LT Creech reacted to Green in Greens Video and Picture Thread   
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