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Here’s another one from AverageNCO and this is one is still alive for the time being. Faustino Raquiza<\/a> says that he was in Vietnam with the 11th Light Infantry Brigade<\/a> of the Americal Division. He also claims that he was with the 174th Attack Helicopter Company<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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He told a local news station<\/a> that he had two Silver Star Medals, too.<\/p>\n

[Andy] Perry and U.S. Army Sgt. Faustino Raquiza both received silver stars for their roles in Vietnam. Raquiza was awarded two silver stars.<\/p>\n

“The silver star doesn’t mean anything to me,\u201d said Raquiza.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know people make it a big deal -third highest ranking star in the United States military, but I rather be understood; understood for what I’m going through and not patronized. It’s hurtful.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Army doesn’t remember his career like Raquiza remembers it;<\/p>\n

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Yeah, well, maybe the Silver Star Doesn’t mean anything to him because he just bought it and pinned it on his shirt. I’m not sure how a Combat Infantryman Badge got in his records, because according to the records, he was a switchboard operator in a signal battalion for the time he was in Vietnam (July 1969- May 1970). You have to be an infantryman, trained, and in an infantry unit in order to be awarded the CIB, he was none of that.<\/p>\n

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