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2007-09-03 Afghanistan

Double VC for Afghan heroes reveals ferocity of war against Taliban

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Posted by Frank G 2007-09-03 10:24|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
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#1 Meanwhile, several MoH nominations languish in the Pentagon for fear that one of our heroes may turn out to be less than perfect. The Lynch and Tillman media circuses have created a paralysis at DoD.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2007-09-03 12:04|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2007-09-03 12:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Never refuse Morphine. I took 2 separate shots when I had a kidney stone. I drove home both times, against doctor's orders. I was fully functional, except for the lack of road-rage.

Posted by McZoid 2007-09-03 12:16|| 2007-09-03 12:16|| Front Page Top

#3 You're clearly special, McZoid. Any painkiller heavier than Tylenol sends me straight to sleep for four to eight hours... and without experience there's no way to know beforehand which way one's body will respond. Especially when the wound is mortal.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-03 13:13|| 2007-09-03 13:13|| Front Page Top

#4 I hate to be a buzzkiller. I've driven on painkillers also. However, I have since found that that driving while using legally prescribed painkillers could result in a "driving under the influence" if you should have an accident where someone ends up dead and an investigating officer orders blood tests.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-09-03 13:38|| 2007-09-03 13:38|| Front Page Top

#5 An old combat NCO suggested to me that extraordinary heroism has become so commonplace in Iraq and Afghanistan, that it has "priced itself out of the market." He then said the new standards for (Army) valor decorations are as follows:

1) Bronze Star: John Rambo, wipes out enemy battalion single handedly, armed with only a captured enemy spork and 50% blood loss.

2) Silver Star: John Wayne, who wipes out an enemy battalion with a broken enemy spork, single handedly while rescuing his own battalion, and a full hospital, orphanage or elementary school. Concurrently beatification must be pending, prior to Sainthood.

3) Distinguished Service Cross: Hercules, a demi-god, who wipes out an enemy division and gets another one to surrender single handedly, after having lost both legs while "rescuing a bus load of burning orphans", and fending off an invasion of hideous UFO aliens.

4) Medal of Honor: Ends the war by forcing the enemy to surrender after two straight weeks of hand to hand fighting, and is presented his MoH by God, personally, before being adopted by Him. Posthumously, of course.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-09-03 14:27|| 2007-09-03 14:27|| Front Page Top

#6 That sounds like our guys, Anonymoose. All the ones whose governments let them fight. Some of the early stories about the British units were mind boggling -- do y'all remember that British unit that ran out of bullets, charged with fixed bayonets, and destroyed the enemy? It seems to me the Spaniards did something likewise amazing, before the new government pulled them out of the fight...

Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-03 16:25|| 2007-09-03 16:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Concerning US valor decoration awards - if my reading of the milblogs is correct, the USMC's doing a better job of recognizing and rewarding its people's efforts. I think the Marines have awarded upwards of 10 Navy Crosses, vs (IIRC) only three DSC's for the Army. The Marine awards also seem fairly distributed by rank; on the other hand, one Army wife in a comment on Blackfive stated that the unwritten usual standard for award of significant Army decorations is "be dead, or be an officer".

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2007-09-03 16:54|| 2007-09-03 16:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Here is the last list for the Marines that I can find:

http://northshorejournal.org/index.php/2007/07/marine-combat-awards-through-june-24

Here is another great source:

http://www.homeofheroes.com/valor/02_wot/index.html

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2007-09-03 18:46|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2007-09-03 18:46|| Front Page Top

#9 here's an American Citizens Medal to every War Fighter out there!

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2007-09-03 22:48|| 2007-09-03 22:48|| Front Page Top

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