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Show Navyntan wins service medal Seaman Leroy O. Jackson, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ferris Fer-ris W. Jackson of 524 E. 7th S., Springville, was awarded the Vietnam Service Medal while serving off the coast of Vietnam aboard the attack aircraft carrier USS Ranger, currently on her second combat cruise to the Vietnam war zone. Servicemen stationed in Vietnam Viet-nam or aboard Seventh Fleet ships in the South China Sea for 30 or more consecutive days are eligible to receive the new campaign medal. Prior to last July, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal was awarded. With the aircraft of Carrier Air Wing 14 aboard the Ranger, Ran-ger, the ship is a mobile landing land-ing field for air strikes against communist targets. Ranger carries fighters, attack bombers bomb-ers and reconnaissance aircraft. |