My first medal, and one that I'm still pretty happy of to this day. Good round, good RP, good everything.
Second medal. I saw an opportunity to push in and I ordered my men in, but when nobody stepped forward I took charge myself and led the push into the caves with my specialist Kesserline just behind me to provide explosive support. We cleared the way for marines to follow after us and successfully beat the aliens far back into Big Red caves.
Third. I late joined on an Ice round, found the marines getting hammered at the LZ, and went in guns blazing. Marcellus Mason and I lit the Queen up until she tried to retreat into a cloud of acid, so I ran in and got an additional pointblank off while Mason fired a slug that nailed her in the cloud. She fell crit and when the cloud dissipated, we cleaned her up.
Fourth. The Queen de-ovi'd as an Elder Queen and I saw her come out and screech the first time, so I waited behind a corner where she couldn't get line of sight on me and then I rushed out with two shotguns when she came out for her second screech. She died in seconds, along with a Hivelord that tried to help her.
Fifth. The squad leader for a reason I cannot remember didn't make first drop, so I was given command of Delta. In the amount of time it took for the Alamo to return to the Almayer and then deploy planetside again, we wiped out an entire alien hive after calling in the support of another squad; it was a multi-hive round, however, so we didn't quite win it for the marines.
Sixth, seventh, and eighth medal all earned in one B18 specialist round. This was when multi-bursting was first introduced, and so despite personally wiping out what was more than half of the hive including some of their T3s, a Carrier just went around slapping facehuggers on people and the hive kept getting over 3 larva from every marine that got infected. We ended up losing the round, but god damn did we put up a good fight against the never ending swarm.
Ninth medal. "OORAH! WE ARE THE USCM AND WE KICK MOTHERFUCKIN' ASS!" I didn't really do anything great this round but I had fun RPing with Dinkle before we went planetside. I don't normally save medals I got that were undeserved or were the actions of others misattributed to me, but it was really memorable and made me smile to see that I got a medal for being cheery alongside Tom Dinkle, the greatest Captain the USCM has ever had.
Tenth. Exactly what it says on the tin. Me and a couple of boys decided we didn't want to funnel into the Lambda 2x2 chokepoints and ran around through the western caves and broke in that way. We killed the queen in ovi as well as a few other xenos.
Eleventh. Became aSL and with a small group of marines we managed to kill the Queen. Pretty unremarkable compared to all of the other medals I've earned, this Queen wasn't even solo'd by me like most other Queens usually were.
Twelveth. The first Queen died and I was on the Alamo when the second one came in from the eastern Alamo doors and tried to lockdown the Alamo for personal usage. She ran in and screeched, trying to meme everyone onboard, but unbeknownst to her I was wearing earmuffs and I chased her down like a madman with two shotguns when she tried to run off.
Thirteenth. Pierce Jackson and I completely flanked the aliens in Big Red caves and ran from Lambda all the way to ETA. When we realized we overshot the flank we turned around and came in from the back where they were fighting inside of the southeastern Big Red caves. We came JUST in time, as the Queen had just screeched the marine frontline without knowing we were coming. I personally killed the Queen and a Boiler trying to defend her. I didn't actually see what Jackson did, mainly because he ran around a corner to kill something else, but he was definitely a helpful distraction at the very least.
Fourteenth. SADAR round and I HE'd a predator. Pretty unremarkable. His hunting pouch helped me carry all my rockets. Thanks, STUPID.
Fifteenth. Exactly what it says on the tin. Nothing special really happened; we all died horrifically during the Almayer crash.
Sixteenth. I don't actually remember this round much. Queen kills, while definitely fun to do, aren't particularly memorable unless something else special happened. All I remember was that it was done solo while the Queen was trying to run away.
Seventeenth. SADAR round on Ice where I was the only thing keeping the aliens at bay. When I got memed by a melting barricade that I couldn't see under the acid sprite and then immediately one hit tackled down twice in a row by a Mature Runner, we shortly lost the planet.
Nineteenth. That's right, I skipped eighteenth. You'll see why in a second. Another Tom Dinkle round, we vitally gave the marines cheer and boosted the morale enough so that they would win the planetside operation. God damn I love the marine corps. It was me, Dinkle, and Decker Alismia in the CIC for a round that spanned over two and a half hours and all of us diligently did our duties while having to additionally pack and coordinate supply drops planetside for marines to get ammunition refills.