Vanessa's Soap Box - Midshipmen teams

Vanessa's Soap Box :

Limbur and his team of Midshipmen finished among the first ten teams at the Challenge.

Olafson's Gang won (minus Eric) the Challenge and took the Reagan Throphy to the Devi.

Only the USS Devastator has so many Midshipmen teams and a dedicated Midshipman training program, deck and dedicated Trainers. The USS Avalon and other Battle ships have one, maybe two teams.

Exception are Academy Ships where the entire crew are midshipmen, cadets and Enlisted crew (still in Training)

Eric is the highest decorated Union Military member after Stahl and started early in his career collecting medals and citations.

Gnume is right in this case: Eric recieved the MOH for fighting two Y'All hand to hand and saving the lives of others. The details why Eric recived the MOH are classified but he openly displays it ( The fact that a Midshipman has a MOH is the source of frequent troubles) He mentions that to Limbur and Limbur agrees.

Adding the combined citations collected by the members of the Olafson Gang (during the third year) elevated them in distant regions. Remember on their way to Newport they fought the Seenian girl, resuced a Hospital ship and saved a Colony. The citations collected for that action alone outweights Limbur's achivements.

So even with Limburs MOH and Galmy's citations they are a distant second.

This should not mean that Limburs actions are any less or not heroic. In fact they might have been even "more" heroic as Limbur does not have the "pre requisites" Eric has.

This also does not mean that Knight Ranger was completley wrong. I really liked his observation and argumentation.