Living soldier awarded Medal of Honor

[lostfan]

I think this is the first time someone's been awarded the Medal of Honor non-posthumously since Vietnam. I don't really know why.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...ST2010091004668

[flippedoutpunk]

I am no one to judge whether a soldiers actions deserve a certain medal or not.. but when i hear medal of honor i think of a soldier clearing out almost an entire company of enemy soldiers to the last clip of his m4, then taking out the rest with his beretta before finally having no way to fight back all while providing security long enough for reinforcements to arrive.. from what i gather from the story is he saved two(?) of his mates while taking out one taliban and chasing off the other with help from his other mates. This is most definitely an amazing act of bravery on his part, but ive seen even my chain of command award just a silver star for things a bit similar to what this brave SGT(?) did. But if the big boss wants to award him with the MOH then thats flippin fantastic, that has to be the most amazing honor one can achieve in life, especially to be a LIVING moh recipient.

[lostfan]

I don't know why there haven't been more awarded from these wars, I mean I know there have been soldiers who could've theoretically been awarded them and there's just been 6 or 7 awarded posthumously.

[SoxAce]

I am no one to judge whether a soldiers actions deserve a certain medal or not.. but when i hear medal of honor i think of a soldier clearing out almost an entire company of enemy soldiers to the last clip of his m4, then taking out the rest with his beretta before finally having no way to fight back all while providing security long enough for reinforcements to arrive.. from what i gather from the story is he saved two(?) of his mates while taking out one taliban and chasing off the other with help from his other mates. This is most definitely an amazing act of bravery on his part, but ive seen even my chain of command award just a silver star for things a bit similar to what this brave SGT(?) did. But if the big boss wants to award him with the MOH then thats flippin fantastic, that has to be the most amazing honor one can achieve in life, especially to be a LIVING moh recipient.

 

Very well said man.

[flippedoutpunk]

for some reason i just thought of all those delta boys that do so much bad ass stuff behind the scenes in countries we dont even know about that cant be awarded these kinds of things because of the top secret factor of their missions...