{"id":67667,"date":"2016-08-28T07:58:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T11:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67667"},"modified":"2016-08-27T18:24:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T22:24:20","slug":"medal-of-honor-for-john-chapman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67667","title":{"rendered":"Medal of Honor for John Chapman?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The New York Times<\/a> recounts the story of Air Force Tech Sergeant John Chapman on top of the mountain, Takur Ghar, during Operation Anaconda, March 4, 2002, while Chapman was supporting SEAL Team 6 during the battle for the summit of the mountain. Navy Chief Britt Slabinski saw Chapman get wounded and when he checked the body under intense fire, he determined the airman was dead and he moved his team from mountain.<\/p>\n

Now according to an examination of the drone footage using new video technology of the battle after the team withdrew, it appears that Chapman was merely unconscious when Slabiniski checked his body and that Chapman fought alone for an hour killing at least two other Taliban fighters, one in hand-to-hand combat until he was ultimately killed as he fought to cover for the reinforcements who arrived on the scene.<\/p>\n

Chapman was awarded the Air Force Cross initially. <\/p>\n

The Air Force secretary is pushing for a Medal of Honor, the military\u2019s highest award, after new technology used in an examination of videos from aircraft flying overhead helped officials conclude that the sergeant had killed two fighters with Al Qaeda \u2014 one in hand-to-hand combat \u2014 before dying in an attempt to protect arriving reinforcements.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Times article seems to make Chief Slabiniski the bad guy, but I don’t blame him – I wasn’t there. He crawled on top of Chapman’s body and got no response – I don’t what else he could have done with the battle raging all around him. He had team mates who he knew were alive to think about. Tough men in tough situations have to make tough decisions and then they have to live with those decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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