Since 9\/11, the 216 medals were awarded in secret for missions that cannot be publicly discussed, according to the records. One Distinguished Service Cross, the second-highest medal awarded to soldiers, and three Navy Crosses, the equivalent medal for sailors and Marines, have been issued for courageous acts during classified operations. The Navy awarded 112 Silver Stars, and the Army 100 more for undisclosed actions. The Air Force has not issued a Service Cross or Silver Star in secret since 9\/11.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
A number of people have sent us the link thinking that it increases the likelihood that phonies will start claiming secret medals. Probably, but only because they don’t understand that the award itself isn’t a secret, it’s still in folks’ records, what is secret is the circumstances that earned the medal for the individual. There might not be a citation, but there will be orders and an annotation of the award in their record jacket.<\/p>\n
Besides, if I’m questioning you about a Silver Star, you didn’t do a very good job of keeping it secret, did you? Secret medals aren’t stuck to the window of your pickup truck or posted on Facebook and kept secret very long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
USAToday reports that 216 valor medals were award in secret during the war against terror, probably … 20% of valor medals were awarded in secret since 9\/11<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64616","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=64616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"Silver](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Silver-star-151x300.jpg\")
<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n