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#1
02-15-2013, 09:06 AM
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new medal outranks Purple Heart and BSM
This is BS. Write your legislators. I did and the Chairman of the JCS.
supports the VFWs efforts. VFW WANTS NEW MEDAL RANKING LOWERED VFW believes Distinguished Warfare Medal should not outrank the Bronze Star, Purple Heart February 14, 2013 America’s largest combat veterans’ organization is in total disagreement with the Pentagon’s decision to have its new Distinguished Warfare Medal outrank the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. “It is very important to properly recognize all who faithfully serve and excel, but this new medal — no matter how well intended — could quickly deteriorate into a morale issue,” said John E. Hamilton, national commander of the 2 million-member Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. and its Auxiliaries. In announcing the medal, the Pentagon said yesterday that modern technology enables service members with special training and capabilities to more directly and precisely impact military operations at times far from the battlefield. The Distinguished Warfare Medal was created to recognize such extraordinary achievement, regardless of the distance from the battlefield. “The VFW fully concurs that those far from the fight are having an immediate impact on the battlefield in real-time,” said Hamilton, a combat-wounded Marine Corps rifleman in Vietnam, “but medals that can only be earned in direct combat must mean more than medals awarded in the rear. The VFW urges the Department of Defense to reconsider the new medal’s placement in the military order of precedence
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02-15-2013, 10:34 AM
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I quit. These fools could screw up a soup sandwich
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#6
02-15-2013, 02:57 PM
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 Professionals talk about tactics and concepts while amateurs talk about gear and equipment.
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#7
02-15-2013, 06:55 PM
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Giving a medal that's rated above the Bronze Star and Purple Heart, for basically playing a video game? Unbelievable!
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CBOBO555 If You Run, You'll Only Die Tired U.S.M.C. Combat Vet 64-68 Kentucky Colonel Retired Motor Officer
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02-15-2013, 07:34 PM
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Tom
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If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen. -- Samuel Adams COTEP CBOB0676 KO4ENQ
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I would think any combat veteran feels this is bunk.
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