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<\/a><\/center>The Navy Times<\/a> reports that six Navy divers who were held by jihadists in Beirut in 1985 will be awarded the POW medal, one medal will be awarded posthumously;<\/p>\nSteelworker Second Class (DV) Robert D. Stethem will posthumously receive the award. He was beaten by the hijackers and shot point blank in the temple, then his body was thrown onto the tarmac at Beirut International Airport. Stethem has been posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star, and an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer is named for him.<\/p>\n
Stethem was part of a team of six divers from the Little Creek, Virginia-based Underwater Construction Team 1, who were flying home June 14, 1985, after finishing a project in Nea Makri, Greece.<\/p>\n
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The five sailors who were held captive with Stethem: Engineering Aid 1st Class (DV) Stuart Dahl; Construction Electrician 1st Class (DV) Tony Watson; Equipment Operator 1st Class (DV) Jeffrey Ingalls; Steelworker 2nd Class (DV) Kenneth Bowen; and Construction Electrician 2nd Class (DV) Clinton Suggs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
According to Wiki<\/a>, the medal wasn’t created until November 8, 1985, but it is awarded for actions back to April 5, 1917. The six divers were held for 17 days on Trans-World Airlines Flight 847, the LA Times<\/a> provides a timeline of events during the hijacking. Three terrorists from the hijacking remain on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists List. The FBI has long blamed Iran-back Hezbollah for the hijacking, Hezbollah has denied that accusation, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"