{"id":36231,"date":"2013-06-13T11:43:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T15:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36231"},"modified":"2013-06-13T11:43:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T15:43:25","slug":"hunter-pentagon-ig-reopens-swenton-moh-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36231","title":{"rendered":"Hunter: Pentagon IG reopens Swenton MOH Nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Army Times<\/a> reports that California Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter, Jr. has acknowledged that the Pentagon’s IG has reopened the nomination of Army Captain Will Swenson for the Medal of Honor.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the latest twist in a case that began on Sept. 8, 2009, when the Army captain and other U.S. forces were ambushed in Kunar province, Afghanistan, while serving as advisers to Afghan forces there. The six-hour battle in the village of Ganjgal killed five U.S. troops, and launched a national outcry about why they were repeatedly denied air and artillery support by Army officers on a nearby base.<\/p>\n

Marine Sgt. Dakota Meyer received the Medal of Honor, the nation\u2019s top combat valor award, in September 2011 for repeatedly braving enemy fire in the battle to recover four of the casualties, who had gone missing on the battlefield. Two other Marines received the Navy Cross \u2014 second only to the Medal of Honor \u2014 in 2011, and a fallen soldier received the Silver Star posthumously in April for heroism that day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you read Meyer’s book, Into the Fire<\/a>, you know that Meyers credits much of what he did that day to earn the Medal of Honor was due to Swenson’s own heroism under withering gunfire from three sides of a gully in which were trapped scores of allies who lived to see the end of the day only because of Swenson’s and Meyer’s actions.<\/p>\n

According to the Army Times, Swenson’s nomination is stalled at the White House and we are left to assume that it was Swenson’s attack on the rules of engagement which prevented the operation from getting any supporting fires to extract the element that was trapped under enemy fire. That is the only logical conclusion at which a rational person can arrive – his nomination has stagnated because of political vindictiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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