{"id":31010,"date":"2012-07-23T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31010"},"modified":"2012-07-23T12:50:04","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T16:50:04","slug":"poor-paul-rieckhoff-a-victim-of-the-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31010","title":{"rendered":"Poor Paul Rieckhoff a victim of the machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

You probably remember the discussion about poor Paul Rieckhoff<\/a> who was wearing a Bronze Star Medal he was never awarded to an interview for pictures at his alma mater. Well, he’s nearly in tears about it in the Military Times (sorry, I don’t link to them anymore because their senior editor, Tobias Naegele is a cowardly, backstabbing pussy) because the Army never gave him his orders;<\/p>\n

Bronze Star snafu reveals valor system flaw<\/p>\n

By Andrew Tilghman – Staff writer
\nPosted : Monday Jul 23, 2012 7:13:12 EDT<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been more than eight years since former Army 1st Lt. Paul Rieckhoff returned from Iraq \u2014 and he\u2019s still not sure whether the Army awarded him a Bronze Star.<\/p>\n

In 2004, his command told him he would be awarded the medal for meritorious service. When he left the Army that year, the medal was clearly listed on his DD 214 discharge form.<\/p>\n

But he said he never received an official citation or saw the orders confirming the medal. And despite repeated phone calls, the Army was never able to clarify what happened with the follow-up documentation.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy paperwork is screwed up, no doubt about that. And I\u2019m sure I\u2019m not the only one,\u201d Rieckhoff said in a recent interview.<\/p>\n

Rieckhoff, founder and executive director of the advocacy group Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, is not a guy you\u2019d expect to be stonewalled by the military\u2019s bureaucracy.
\n[…]<\/p>\n

For Rieckhoff, the question hit home recently when he was accused by bloggers of improperly wearing the Bronze Star in a 2004 photo taken for his college alumni magazine.<\/p>\n

Rieckhoff said the photo was taken during the brief period before he began to have concerns about the award\u2019s documentation. He notes that he no longer wears the award or claims publicly to have earned it. His official bio on the IAVA website makes no mention of a Bronze Star.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, the article doesn’t address the fact that there were no orders for the medal, it wasn’t on his NGB Form 22, Report of Separation and Record of Service and yet it still showed up on his DD214 somehow. How would a clerk know to put it on the DD214 without any orders or citation? Are clerks just psychic about that stuff? And Rieckhoff signed his discharge, so it’s not like he couldn’t have any answers about how it got there. And I guess the Special Forces unit patch he was wearing in the picture doesn’t even get a mention.<\/p>\n

I’m not surprised that Military Times won’t ask Rieckhoff the hard questions a journalist should ask so they can properly inform the public, in this case members of the military, they’re the product of their cowardly, backstabbing, punk-ass, sissy senior editor, Tobias Naegele.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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