{"id":140453,"date":"2023-04-25T07:14:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T11:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=140453"},"modified":"2023-04-25T09:42:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T13:42:39","slug":"general-mark-milley-stripped-of-military-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=140453","title":{"rendered":"General Mark Milley stripped of Military Awards?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something like this happens every time I think I have seen it all when it comes to strange behavior with medals and ribbons and badges&#8230; oh my.<\/p>\n<p>So there I was, working on an upcoming valor vulture blog of shame when I suddenly noticed something while watching an unrelated video.\u00a0 I could use some help on this from our Army veterans.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that the Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairperson has been suddenly and without explanation stripped of at least 4 military awards. Up until a few weeks ago all of his pictures appear to look like this:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/milley1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-140454\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/milley1-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/milley1-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/milley1-500x272.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/milley1-768x418.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/milley1-1536x836.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/milley1.jpg 1567w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2020\/Dec\/17\/2002553999\/-1\/-1\/0\/201211-D-WD757-0038.JPG\">Actual Link to Picture Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Would EwePeaPole please take a look at all the pictures of him since around 2019\u00a0 when he became the Chair Person and compare them to this new, covertly released one:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/milleypoof-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-140456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/milleypoof-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/milleypoof-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/milleypoof-266x333.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/milleypoof-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/milleypoof-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/milleypoof-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/milleypoof-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/89\/GEN_Mark_A._Milley_portrait.jpg\">Link to that picture Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/milleycovertchange.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-140455\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/milleycovertchange-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/milleycovertchange-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/milleycovertchange-500x302.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/milleycovertchange-768x464.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/milleycovertchange-1536x927.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/milleycovertchange.jpg 1940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watching a recent video it caught my eye that something was amiss.<\/p>\n<p>Link to Video:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?527095-1\/joint-chief-staff-chair-mark-milley-joint-forces-future\">https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?527095-1\/joint-chief-staff-chair-mark-milley-joint-forces-future<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I started snooping around, as I do when things like that jump out at me, and it appears that he is suddenly missing 3 awards of a ribbon and 1 award of a Medal.<\/p>\n<p>Is he selflessly giving back a bunch of awards or has he actually been &#8220;out of uniform&#8221; for years?\u00a0 Why all the hush hush about it?<\/p>\n<p>I am betting money that there is a PAO locked in a Pentagon closet, conjuring up some press release as we speak.\u00a0 &#8220;One of my assistants had been dressing me wrong for that past few years,\u00a0 sorry about that.&#8221;\u00a0 Or, &#8220;After a careful review of the Generals official records it was determined that some administrative errors were made and he has now corrected his uniform to reflect those changes.&#8221;\u00a0 Could be, &#8220;Due to supply chain issues, the Oak Leaf Clusters now made in China are in short supply so I gave mine to a needy soldier.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All of this kinda made me start looking into the rest of his salad.\u00a0 Should we give the good General a pass on the issue and let him hide behind the skirts of a few assistants?\u00a0 One would hope that the senior military leader of the Free World would have grown a pair by now.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, before I send a formal inquiry to Mark about this ribbon salad, would some of you good folks please prove me wrong.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/milleyoldnew.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-140457\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/milleyoldnew-163x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/milleyoldnew-163x300.jpg 163w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/milleyoldnew-181x333.jpg 181w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/milleyoldnew-768x1412.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/milleyoldnew-836x1536.jpg 836w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/milleyoldnew.jpg 933w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something like this happens every time I think I have seen it all when it comes &hellip; 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