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Daily Kos: General Petraeus Wore Fraudulent Medal
Via OrbusMax.com - Little Green Footballs ^ | 9/21/07

Posted on 09/22/2007 11:31:06 AM PDT by llevrok

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To: stand watie

not exactly sure what to make of the big TY, but tks, LOL

Also, re your next post re MOH.......I’ve met Sammy Davis many times at various get-togethers and his attitude is the same as Donolons. Sort of like having one makes one responsible to the many unsung heroes. I knew a couple of (also) very ordinary guys who surely should have gotten one for a few minutes or an instant of unplanned madness and loyalty in the dark.

sorry to say it, but I contrast these men with kerry, who after a cowardly full-throttle run downstream from what was probably the only enemy action he ever saw, was successful in weaseling himself into a SSV. How can this creature look into the mirror every morning?


161 posted on 09/22/2007 5:27:15 PM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: Lovebloggers

I understand. I am not personally eligible for the CAB (instead I have been awarded the CMB). However, when we were deployed several of the soldiers attached to our squadron were denied their CAB in cases that were never adequately explained (for instance two of the guys in a HWMMV that was hit by an IED got it while the other two did not). It makes me raise an eyebrow to see a General officer wearing it.


162 posted on 09/22/2007 5:31:16 PM PDT by 91B (God made man, Sam Colt made men equal)
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To: MNJohnnie; All

Um...if a retired Army doofus like me is authorized to wear quite a few of those very same medals, those Kos Kids need to investigate me, LOL! Bring it on! :)

My take? They’re all a bunch of military-bashing “PX Heroes” who don’t appreciate what men like General Petraeus really mean to this country. (I don’t know him personally, though my best friend is a retired Major and she taught with him at military academies in the past. She thinks the sun rises and sets on him and that’s good enough for me.)

Sadly, none of the Kos Kids are intelligent enough to read even the SIMPLEST of military regulations. In their defense, military regulations are usually quite thick. They DO have a lot of numbers and big words in them. And no pictures. *SMIRK*


163 posted on 09/22/2007 5:31:42 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Michael.SF.; abenaki; concretebob; BillF; trooprally

I love this vision of earned medals! LOL


164 posted on 09/22/2007 5:58:33 PM PDT by 3D-JOY
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To: llevrok
expetise, not expertiCe.

Oops.

165 posted on 09/22/2007 5:58:53 PM PDT by NautiNurse (McClatchy News report: Half the nation's families earn below the median family income)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

Ya beat me to it!


166 posted on 09/22/2007 5:59:35 PM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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To: ARE SOLE

So that’s the chief Kossucker, eh?


167 posted on 09/22/2007 6:02:21 PM PDT by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: coffee260

Some of us sent our Good Conduct Medals BACK to our Congressman upon Jimmuh Kkkatuh’s draftdodger pardon.


168 posted on 09/22/2007 6:02:32 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: A.A. Cunningham
I believe the poster is confusing the Good Conduct Medal with the Vietnam Service Award ~ which is what they awarded upon completing AIT.

That way the short-time NGs and Reservists would get a medal too.

169 posted on 09/22/2007 6:04:53 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: magellan
Rounds going in or out would qualify, or even a sapper in the area ready to drop a satchel charge on you would count.

Accidental encounters with non-enemy forces outside of a warzone don't count no matter what happens.

170 posted on 09/22/2007 6:09:01 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Beckwith

"NO Good Conduct Medal for YOU!"

171 posted on 09/22/2007 6:09:28 PM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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To: ARE SOLE

Don't ask, don't tell.

172 posted on 09/22/2007 6:11:22 PM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0 (Reunite Gondwanaland!)
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To: llevrok

Since the Daily Kooks hate the military, why should anyone listen to anything they have to say?

Pray for W and Our Troops


173 posted on 09/22/2007 6:11:35 PM PDT by bray (Think "Betray U.S." Think Democrat)
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To: Lovebloggers

Guy was in the Infantry and that’s good enough for me. All those other guys need medals ~ Infantrymen really don’t need ‘em.


174 posted on 09/22/2007 6:13:35 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
My personal feelings are that these enemies of our country that are trying their best to demean our country’s most decorated general are completely transparent. Their anti-American sentiments are coming through loud and clear and turning off the mainstream electorate.
175 posted on 09/22/2007 6:16:08 PM PDT by right wing (The Drive-By Media Are Terrorists Too)
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68; All
well, the TU was for saying that the CAB is NOT (& isn't imVho,) the same as the CIB.

fwiw, i'm a holder of the EIB (but NOT the CIB- MPs aren't eligible for the CIB.) & doing that series of tests was the hardest thing i ever did in the army!!!

as for "HANOI-john", he (imVho) is to quote another "old soldier", "un homme sans honneur".

free dixie,sw

176 posted on 09/22/2007 6:16:08 PM PDT by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Right, for the regulations ~ officers are hired on to read those things. On the other hand, for highly important work, e.g. tracked vehicle maintenance, the Army issues comic books!


177 posted on 09/22/2007 6:21:16 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68; All
check out post #153.

thought you might get a kick out of Joe's comment about being recruited to MM's.

also, his (rueful comment), "old soldiers never die. they only smell that way."

free dixie,sw

178 posted on 09/22/2007 6:22:21 PM PDT by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68; All
check out post #153.

thought you might get a kick out of Joe's comment about being recruited to MM's.

also, his (rueful comment), "old soldiers never die. they only smell that way."

free dixie,sw

179 posted on 09/22/2007 6:22:37 PM PDT by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68; All
check out post #153.

thought you might get a kick out of Joe's comment about being recruited to MM's.

also, his (rueful comment), "old soldiers never die. they only smell that way."

free dixie,sw

180 posted on 09/22/2007 6:22:40 PM PDT by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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