Military BS never ceases

[PapaG39]

I am a fair weather Kaptian!
Patrol #8 was a miserable failure. I sailed along for days & days with out even seeing a sea gull. Rain, wind & just nasty.
I finely pulled up along the English west coast & sunk my boat for another boring listen....when finely...A sound. The weather was so crappy that after a triangulation of the course, I just charged along the surface to meet the merchant. I couldn't see anything so I went down for a listen & there he was right where he was suppose to be...back up & am looking around when ...POW! right in my face this huge C3 comes plowing out of the fog & rain. he was to close to shoot..about 275m, so I had to get re-adjusted & to make a long story short,,,I blew the first 4 torps & finely layed one down the beam which left him dead in the water, but no more torpedoes to throw his way.
a real dog & pony show on my part...
Then when I get back to base...NO KILLS! they gave me the Nights Cross!

Now isn't that just like the military. Give the officers a medal for screwing up & throw the sailors in the brig for doing nothing..