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2009-03-26 Home Front: WoT

Navy Cross will be awarded to 29 Palms Marine

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Posted by Pappy 2009-03-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Give us a report, Pappy. These days the Navy Cross is essentially equivalent to the MOH.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2009-03-26 08:26|| 2009-03-26 08:26|| Front Page Top

#2 The CMC is contemplating nominating a living Marine for the Medal, according to news reports.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2009-03-26 11:53|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2009-03-26 11:53|| Front Page Top

#3 about time they awarded such a high medal too someone who lived too talk about it.I'm sure there are alot more soldiers out there who deserve them

Posted by rabid whitetail 2009-03-26 12:40|| 2009-03-26 12:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Marine Corps Times

The Marine Corps commandant said Wednesday that an investigator is reviewing a valor case that, if approved, would yield the first living recipient of the Medal of Honor in the war on terrorism.

To date, five service members two soldiers, two sailors and one Marine have received the militarys top valor award for actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, all posthumously.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-03-26 15:33|| 2009-03-26 15:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Sergeant Major Bradley Kasal lived and was awarded the Navy Cross.

In a fire fight in a house in Fallujah, although wounded by seven 7.62 mm AK-47 rounds and hit by more than 40 pieces of hot fragmentation from a grenade while using his body to shield an injured fellow Marine, Kasal refused to quit fighting and is credited with saving the lives of several Marines during the U.S. assault on insurgent strongholds in Fallujah in November 2004.

By the time he was carried out of the house by LCpl. Chris Marquez and LCpl. Dan Shaffer, Kasal had lost approximately 60 percent of his blood.

The photograph of Kasal, taken by photographer Lucian Read blood soaked and still holding his pistol and K-Bar knife being helped from the building by fellow Marines, has become one of the iconic pictures of the war

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-03-26 15:48|| 2009-03-26 15:48|| Front Page Top

#6 GolfBravoUSMC: I suppose his CoC was willing to forgive him for using those bad words on being ordered to redeploy. Marines tend to get testy when being ordered out of a pitched battle before they are good and ready.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-03-26 18:40|| 2009-03-26 18:40|| Front Page Top

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