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    Private Nikolai Aleksandrovich Popovskii


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    Guest Rick Research

    Again, seems to be a Valor Medal downgraded... as if by Official Reluctance to ADMIT to serious combat?

    Odd, isn't it, that EVERY researched award we've had come back from Afghanistan has been DOWN-graded:

    My Divisional Commander Colonel Vozhachenko "only" got a :sleep: Red Star for clearing out a province, Doug's helicopter gunner Sr Lt Tretyak "only" got an implausible :sleep: OSH 3 (!) ... your Warrant Officer Basovich in '88 "only" got an :sleep: MMM... now THIS "only" :sleep: MMM.

    And not one of the action write ups in any way suggests :sleep: to me!!!!!

    A "strelok" is a rifleman, not a sniper-- "snaiper." Though "anti-aircraft rifleman" which is what his position says literally seems an odd designation and may indeed be a "polite" term for a long distance marksman. ???

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    My sense from what I was told . . . and the researcher could be wrong . . . is that he was anti-aircraft using his guns in an anti-personnel capacity (at there were no "rebel" planes to shoot at). Dunno . . . .

    Hi Ed,

    Yes, he was an anti-aircraft gunner. "Strelok" means "gunner" in general terms too; in a tank he'd be a "strelok tankist". But he used his AK to attack the "rebels" or "dukhi".

    BR,

    Al

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