Sorry. Not interested in your thread-jack. We're not talking about the Purple Heart. We're talking about the new medal Peon Panetta and his merry band of morons just created.
What part of "V for Valor" don't you understand?
Originally Posted by
LivingInMEM
You've got no issue with an NCO who processes awards getting the same medal as those in direct combat action or a higher medal than a purple heart, but this one gets you spun up?
No, you don't get to put words into my mouth and then answer as if I said something I didn't. Go pull your BS somewhere else, junior.
"This new medal -- no matter how well intended -- could quickly deteriorate into a morale issue," John Hamilton, national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, said in a statement Thursday. "Medals that can only be earned in direct combat must mean more than medals awarded in the rear."
Hamilton urged the Pentagon to "reconsider the new medal's placement in the military order of precedence."
Some suggested the medal is not really necessary.
"Why does it have to be a new medal?" said Nick McDowell, a member of the Orders and Medals Society of America.
High-tech troops could be recognized with current medals, or, if necessary, the Pentagon could add a new ribbon devices attached to an existing medal, McDowell said.
"The problem is that we're adding another non-valor personal decoration into a system that is already crowded with non-valor personal decorations," McDowell said. "The ultimate consequence is that it will diminish the prestige of the valor decorations. Nobody wants that, but that is basically what happens."