{"id":62595,"date":"2015-11-02T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62595"},"modified":"2015-11-02T10:07:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T15:07:30","slug":"marine-gets-bronze-star-after-investigation-of-false-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62595","title":{"rendered":"Marine gets Bronze Star after investigation of false allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Military Times<\/a> reports that back in 2010 Joshua Acevedo was investigated because some attachment to his unit reported after a mission that Acevedo had killed an unarmed insurgent in Afghanistan during his third combat tour to the war against terror. The court battle that ensued forced the Marine to leave the Corps even though he had been cleared of the charges. Now the Marine Corps is making it up to him with the award of a Bronze Star for his valor during the operation that cost him his career.<\/p>\n

Acevedo now works in Iraq for Triple Canopy, a provider of integrated security and mission support services. He will receive his Bronze Star with V at the Marine Corps Ball in Sonoma, California. A number of former squad members will be at his side. He would have it no other way.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is more of a squad award in my eyes,\u201d he said. \u201cAbsolutely nothing could have been done without them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schmitz also reached out to Mattis and asked the former head of U.S. Central Command to take part. He quickly agreed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe valor displayed by Sgt. Acevedo stands on its own, unadorned by who is privileged to present the actual award to him,\u201d Mattis told Marine Corps Times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All respect to Sergeant Acevedo. The Military Times tells the story of his actions that earned the award, so you’ll have to click over to the read the story of the sergeant who led the bayonet charge when his troops were low on ammo. All respect to the Marine Corps, too, for coming to this decision, albeit years late to the moment.<\/p>\n

My complaint about the article though is that the Military Times calls his award “a Bronze Star with combat distinguishing device”. A publication called “Military Times” should know better. The Bronze Star Medal is only awarded for combat. So what device would be needed to “distinguish combat”? I’m guessing that they mean the “V” device for “Valor”, but they should say that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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