Drone Driver Award
For those that hang it out in air conditioned trailers near the Coke machine:
Pentagon creates new medal for cyber, drone wars - Business - Boston.com |
The Bronze Star might be the 4th highest COMBAT medal; but it has turned into an administrative/staff medal during recent actions.
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The UAV "pilots" deserve a medal.....for the mindnumbing hours of boredom they have to tolerate if nothing else.
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New Drone/CyberWar Medal
To be considered higher than Bronze Star! ***?
What say you, combat veterans? |
I've got no problem with them getting a medal. They have contributed much to the effort no doubt. The placement of the award in my opinion is not appropriate - if it is considered a "combat" award. If so - it should be below any award that actually involves direct participation.
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Originally Posted by UnderOveur
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The UAV "pilots" deserve a medal.....for the mindnumbing hours of boredom they have to tolerate if nothing else.
Boredom is a staple of military life. |
Good points all around and I agree they should not be placed above "combat" awards...However, they already have MSM's, AFCOM's, and Achievement Medals in place to properly recognize the cyber/RPA folks who do a vital job in a non-lethal enviornment. IMHO, this is nothing more than pandering to the RPA lobby so they can have a "Look at me I'm a combat warrior" award.
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Originally Posted by ClutchCargo
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To be considered higher than Bronze Star! ***?
What say you, combat veterans? |
Everyone gets a trophy.
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Cyber Drone Medal
For a moment I thought I might have mistakenly run across an article on The Onion. But no, this new "Distinguished Warfare Medal" appears to be real.
The article says it "will be considered a bit higher in ranking than the Bronze Star, but is lower than the Silver Star." My guess--too many UAV (or whatever they're going by these days) commanders weren't getting the recognition they felt they deserved and this is the result. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe a sharp drone pilot will deadstick his pred in for a life saving....errrr...safe landing and get a ride to D.C. for the honor of getting the first one of these. |
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