{"id":29497,"date":"2012-04-12T21:57:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T01:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29497"},"modified":"2012-04-12T22:13:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T02:13:08","slug":"bronze-star-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29497","title":{"rendered":"Bronze Star Woes."},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been away from my home computer and will be away for awhile. My internet is spotty at best so I have been lacking in the posting. But I saw this and thought that this needed a post. It all starts with a TSGT being awarded a Bronze Start for here tour in the Stan. Here is the back story found on thelittlep<\/a><\/p>\n

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas <\/strong>\u2014 An NCO from the 802nd Comptroller Squadron earned the Bronze Star March 14 for her actions in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Tech. Sgt. Christina Gamez, a financial analyst in the 802nd CPTS, received the Bronze Star for meritorious service from Brig. Gen. Theresa A. Carter, 502nd Air Base Wing commander, prior to a commander\u2019s call at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.<\/p>\n

The Bronze Star is the U.S. military\u2019s fourth-highest individual decoration for bravery, heroism or meritorious service.<\/p>\n

Gamez distinguished herself by meritorious achievement as the NCO in charge during a 365-day deployment, January 2011 to January 2012. While in Afghanistan, she accurately executed operational funds across eight remote bases, providing commanders with flexibility in support of counterinsurgency efforts. Gamez trained 68 operational fund teams, reviewed 34 projects and funded 280 joint acquisition board packages enabling critical base sustainment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems that the flak behind it was bad enough to have the story pulled from the Air Force’s website.<\/a> Granted for how many times have we seen the Bronze Star get awarded to Senior level NCOs and Company Grade Officers during deployments but I never remember anything like this happen in the Army. Even the Air Force Times is covering it saying that there was another TSGT that was on the reciving end of harsh words. They even titled it that they were being “bullied”<\/a>” on the front cover. I tried to find the story but I think that it is too new. <\/del><\/p>\n

\nThe story drew 70 online com\u00adments between March 26 and March 29, mostly from people who were livid because they said Gamez did not deserve to be recog\u00adnized for doing her job.\u201cI was the camp soccer mom because I was always taking care of people, so that\u2019s the kind of pace I keep, whether it\u2019s here or there,\u201d Gamez said. \u201cI knew that when I was deployed I needed to stay as busy as possible and that\u2019s my normal.\u201d Gamez was shocked that adults could be bullied like this.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo all those who have gone out\u00adside the wire and are going outside the wire wearing 70lbs of gear and return with no more than a thanks for doing your job, I\u2019m sorry you have to see people get BSM that don\u2019t deserve them,\u201d one commenter wrote on the Air Force website before the story was removed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anyways. It is not like this has happend before. Or that people in the Military know how the Bronze Star is given out. I mean there were more Bronze Stars given out during OIF 2003-2010 than the Combat Action Badge, by about 30,000<\/a>. If the Combat Action Badge has a negative image about being just handed out then what does this say about the Bronze Star without Valor? <\/p>\n

But honestly for some reason I am not bothered by her getting a BSM. I mean I would rather worry about Admin personal that lie about their awards to rip people off<\/a>.But what say you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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