{"id":39535,"date":"2014-01-30T06:58:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T11:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39535"},"modified":"2014-01-30T08:59:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T13:59:31","slug":"military-medal-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39535","title":{"rendered":"Military Medal Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know what this means, but apparently, according to Stars & Stripes<\/a>, the Pentagon is proud to announce that they’re going to “review” all military medals. I don’t why, and I don’t get the point of it. Seems to me that there are more important things that Pentagon can be doing besides looking at bling. I guess the flag officers have all of the medals they can give each other, so they want to cut off everyone else, or something;<\/p>\n

Officials said the review, ordered by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, would likely kick off within a month or so and be complete by late 2014 or early 2015.<\/p>\n

Beyond determining how new warfare technologies would fit into the medal picture, the parameters of the review are still being worked out, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the wars are ending \u2026 rather than looking piecemeal at any specific one, he wants to do a comprehensive review of them all,\u201d Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The focus of the article is on awarding drone warriors a suitable medal, but it seems to me there are lots of medals not connected with actually being in combat to handle that. The last time the Army did this, in the early 80s, we got the Army Service Ribbon – a completely useless award that was adopted because there were too many people without any awards running around after the National Defense Medal awards ended in August 1974. When my son graduated from his 6 weeks of Air Force basic training, he already had three ribbons. I was on my second enlistment before I had three awards on my uniform. So the Army adopted the ASR, the Overseas Service Ribbon and the NCO Professional Development Ribbon to keep up with the Air Force, I suppose.<\/p>\n

I guess this “review” is to keep some flag officers employed and a backdoor route to adopt the Distinguish Warfare Medal again – you know, that drone warrior thing, where you get a medal for combat without leaving the States. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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