Posted on Jan 28, 2017
Do you know how we can submit a 1968 Veteran for posthumous award?
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HR Personnel out there in RP Land or anyone with knowledge need your help. @TSgt Dawn Premock TSgt Dawn Premock need shelp in submitting a posthumous award for someone who saved soldiers and was KIA in the process. She has one person still living who can recount the full details.
It was her Uncle Dennis Premock KIA May 6, 1968
Please provide all the details on this award can be submitted? Need to know the How (Forms and documentation - witness statement from indiviaul, the Where (what address does it need to be submitted to), and the When (How long does it take?).
Good for everyone to know that knows somebody that has been overlooked or forgotten and they have knoweldge of valor above and beyond the Call of Duty.
Please share your stories that may have been forgotten!
It was her Uncle Dennis Premock KIA May 6, 1968
Please provide all the details on this award can be submitted? Need to know the How (Forms and documentation - witness statement from indiviaul, the Where (what address does it need to be submitted to), and the When (How long does it take?).
Good for everyone to know that knows somebody that has been overlooked or forgotten and they have knoweldge of valor above and beyond the Call of Duty.
Please share your stories that may have been forgotten!
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This is right up the VFW's alley Col Mikel Burroughs- submit certified true copies (NEVER THE ORIGINALS) to the VFW, as well as the branch of the service's archive department. The VFW should be "chomping at the bit" for something like this. It would help if the witness was also a VFW member
Hope this helps
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Hope this helps
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TSgt Dawn Premock
I'm a life member of the VFW. I live in Delaware where I retired. My Uncle was from NJ. Where do I start?
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GySgt Melissa Gravila
TSgt Dawn Premock - get with your VFW Commander, have the Commander "run it up the chain" to National. I can't stress this enough, MAKE SURE YOU GET NAMES OF ALL THE STOPS ALONG THE WAY this way there is less chance of it stalling on a desk. Express the importance of expediency on the issue. Also do the same thing with the archive dept (this way you are hitting it from both directions at the same time). Your Commander should be able to guide you through step by step. Good luck, if I can help in any way let me know. (I'm a lifetime member of DAV)
Semper Fi
Semper Fi
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I want to thank everyone who can help. I served to honor him and now my son is serving in my Uncles honor.
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CPT Wallace Dunn
Thank you ma'am for your service. I'm sure your Uncle would be proud of you and your son. God Bless you.
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I hope that TSgt Dawn Premock's Uncle US Army SGT Dennis Premock will be awarded a posthumous award for valor based on his actions "On May 6, 1968 a tank in front of his was hit. Sgt Premock ran from his tank to save his fellow soldiers and he was taken down by small arms fire."
I am glad that others have weighed in with specifics including contacting the respective Congressman SSG Jarrod Stover and contacting VFW GySgt Melissa Gravila
Thanks for sharing COL Mikel J. Burroughs
I am glad that others have weighed in with specifics including contacting the respective Congressman SSG Jarrod Stover and contacting VFW GySgt Melissa Gravila
Thanks for sharing COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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LTC Stephen F.
TSgt Dawn Premock - you are very welcome. I find it helps to have an image of the person the discussion is focused on to help us remember we are talking about a fellow human being.
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