{"id":34517,"date":"2013-03-12T14:39:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T18:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34517"},"modified":"2013-03-12T14:54:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T18:54:02","slug":"review-of-the-distinguished-warfare-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34517","title":{"rendered":"Review of the Distinguished Warfare Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, I heard that Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is reviewing the Distinguished Warfare Medal. From the Stars & Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Pentagon spokesman George Little said Tuesday said the review was prompted by complaints from veterans groups and lawmakers about its ranking above the Bronze Star and Purple Heart.<\/p>\n

The review, to be led by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, will look at whether the order of precedence for the new medal should be changed, but will not consider eliminating the new award. A report and decision on the issue is expected by April 12.<\/p>\n

The announcement comes days after Hagel defended the medal to critics, and just weeks after the Pentagon announced the new award.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

TSO called to remind us that when he was on a conference call with DoD a few weeks ago, they were adamant that they weren’t going to review anything, that it was being rolled out as planned. But, today, somehow, things have changed. <\/p>\n

Since this whole thing began, I’ve said it was a distraction from real issues. Panetta gave Hagel a gift that made Hagel look like someone who is on our side, a member of the E-4 Mafia who is just like us. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, we’re not talking about the thousands of retirees who are being kicked off of Tricare Prime next month. We’re not talking about the Tricare premiums and co-pays that are jumping up. We’re not talking about the cuts to tuition assistance for active duty folks. We’ve forgotten about the $700 million dollars raided from our Tricare surplus. We’re not talking about the carrier group that won’t be supporting the troops in the Gulf.<\/p>\n

I just wonder what the next shiny object will be that they’ll use to distract us from actual issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, I heard that Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is reviewing the Distinguished Warfare Medal. From … Review of the Distinguished Warfare Medal<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}