This has already appeared in other places, so it probably should be noted here too.<\/p>\n
Apparently, questions have been raised about – and an investigation begun regarding – the awards and decorations of a rather famous figure from Vietnam. The individual? The late CSM Basil L. Plumley.<\/p>\n
BLUF: per the Army, it appears his being a 3x recipient of the CIB cannot be substantiated from documentation contained in his official records. The same is also apparently true about him being a 2x CIB recipient, or having received multiple awards of the Silver Star and a third award of the Bronze Star Medal with “V” device. My interpretation of what I\u2019ve read is that at least some of these latter awards do appear on one or more of his DD214s, but that there is no other documentation for them in his OMPF.<\/p>\n
You can read the details for yourself if you desire. Here is an article<\/i><\/a> that covers the matter in some detail. Here\u2019s a link<\/i><\/a> to the Army memo detailing a review of CSM Plumley\u2019s OMPF by US Army HRC \u2013 which indicates that some of the awards listed on CSM Plumley\u2019s DD214s cannot be validated. And here\u2019s the photo<\/i><\/a> that apparently sparked the review.<\/p>\n And yes, CSM Plumley is one of those listed on the 3x CIB list<\/i><\/a> formerly displayed by the National Infantry Museum. I don\u2019t know if he was one of the original 230 or was later added by museum staff.<\/p>\n As I said above, the matter apparently is under investigation.\u00a0 I\u2019ll post a follow-up if\/as new info becomes known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
![here\u2019s the photo<\/i><\/a> that apparently sparked the review.<\/p>\nAnd yes, CSM Plumley is one of those listed on the 3x CIB list<\/i><\/a> formerly displayed by the National Infantry Museum. I don\u2019t know if he was one of the original 230 or was later added by museum staff.<\/p>\nAs I said above, the matter apparently is under investigation.\u00a0 I\u2019ll post a follow-up if\/as new info becomes known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This has already appeared in other places, so it probably should be noted here too. Apparently, … Questions Raised About an Icon<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":32329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65876","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\/65876","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/78\/CSM%28R%29_Basil_L._Plumley_at_West_Point_10_May_2010.JPG\/612px-CSM%28R%29_Basil_L._Plumley_at_West_Point_10_May_2010.JPG\"){kind=link}