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These are some of the ribbons that my ship earned. My ship earned a couple of stars before I joined its crew.  Since an LCI was not a combat vessel we did not often see a lot of direct combat.  The Japanese would often ignore an LCI rather than waist a shell on one.  They would never give away their position just to have the chance to shoot at one of these tiny vessels.  We had no significant fire power so we were not a threat to anyone.  Because of our rather harmless reputation we were assigned to escort submarines into the east china sea.  Now this was an unusual duty for an LCI.  Another reason we were picked to do this was that American pilots could easily recognize a boxy little LCI from the air and thus they could avoid bombing our own subs.