MSF 4 Presentation CISO Roundtip Bolo 1st Lt RASSMAN Historically Significant for Sale

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MSF 4 Presentation CISO Roundtip Bolo 1st Lt RASSMAN Historically Significant For Sale

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MSF 4 Presentation CISO Roundtip Bolo 1st Lt RASSMAN Historically Significant:
$2499.99

CISO Round tip bolo. It has been used & shows signs of sharpening, water stains & minor oxidation and/or pitting. The condition is much better in hand than in my pictures.

Yes it was used which would bring value to around $1200 however it’s presentation one. This one is even more unique because there’s only one other known to exist that was given to someone in MIKE FORCE. Historical significance is who it belonged to.

It’s inscribed to:

LT JAMES A. RASSMAN

XO A 403 XO A 404

FROM THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE

4th MOBILE STRIKE FORCE

FOR OUTSTANDING SERVICE FROM

1968-1969

After the war he served in the LA County Sheriff. He is the reason John Kerry was awarded the Bronze Star & defended him during the 2004 election:

Kerry was serving in the United States Navy at the time, as lieutenant and Officer-in-Charge of Swift Boat PCF-94, which for that period primarily patrolled in the Mekong River delta. On 13 March 1969, they had completed operations, had debarked some passengers but retained others, and this squadron of five PCF boats was headed out of the river to the bay. They approached a weir (a series of poles across the river, like thousands along the shore and the shoreline of the bay, across which nets could be strung). Some of the boats hugged the shore to the left, some to the right, in order to get around. As they tried to go around, the lead boat to the left, PCF-3, was blown clear out of the water with a command detonated mine (someone was nearby to remotely detonate it). According to Sen. Kerry's account, Kerry was already injured himself, and his boat (already damaged from a second explosion) came under heavy fire, when Kerry heard "man overboard". He says that he ordered that the crew turn the boat around and return to pick up Rassman, who had fallen off the port side or stern of PCF-94. Rassmann was for some reason unable to climb up over the cargo net near the bow of PCF-94, so Kerry pulled him on deck. The incident earned Kerry a Bronze Star with "V" Device for valor and his third Purple Heart.

Rassman recommended Kerry for a Silver Star. Based on such an officer's recommendation, lacking testimony to the contrary, as Kerry already had this award from a previous incident, he was awarded a Bronze Star with Combat V, instead. Part of the citation read - "Lt. Kerry directed his gunners to provide suppressing fire, while from an exposed position on the bow, his arm bleeding and in pain, with disregard for his personal safety, he pulled the man aboard."

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