Army sergeant who saved 2 comrades to get Medal of Honor

MSNBC ^ | May 31, 2011 | msnbc.com staff and news service reports

[Old Teufel Hunden]

I believe also that their children are entitled to automatically be recommended to attend any of the military academies provided they meet the academic criteria.

In regards to saluting, Audie Murphy had an interesting story in his biography. (To Hell and Back) He had some General (perhaps Mark Clark???) come visit him on the set one time. Murphy hated him for Anzio so when the General saluted him in deference to his Medal of Honor, Murphy did not return the salute and embarrassed him in front of all who were there.

[unkus]

The point is rather moot since in a few weeks everyone from private to 5 star general will salute him first.

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A few points on that: Enlisted {E-1 - E-9} do not salute other enlisted and there are no more living 5 Star Generals or Admirals.

Your point is well taken-he deserves all the respect he is bound to receive from all he meets.

[W. W. SMITH]

In addiction , if you recognize him in civilian clothing or he is wearing the miniature medal and you are in uniform you salute.

[Lancey Howard]

BUMP!
Thanks for the ping.

[W. W. SMITH]

If that other enlisted has a MOH on his chest , they most certainly salute.

Have not seen this anywhere but was told that when checking in to a new command a MOH recipient is entitled to be met at the gate by the commanding officer and the base band if any, with full military honors.

[WOBBLY BOB]

It still pisses me off they took away the black berets.

Now everyone gets one- like everyone gets a trophy for trying hard in school.

[W. W. SMITH]

In the Navy they put everyone in khakis. Now if an E3 is out in town drunk, laying in a gutter, someone might think he is a Chief and that is unacceptable. Who ever allowed this should be ashamed of themselves.

[cll]

And for the most part, the rest of the Army that was forced to wear berets hate them.

[Charlie62]

I retired from the Army in 2001 as the black berets were starting to be worn by soldiers. I heard nothing but complaints about them. No soldier said, oh boy!, I want to wear that black thingy on my head, its so cool! In my unit soldiers referred to the black beret as the Monica hat; referring of course to Pres Clinton's famous picture with the black beret wearing Monica. I asked my Marine Corps son what he thinks of the Army's black beret. He said, "I think they are gay." He is a man of few words but very opinionated.

[philled]

I take it that the rest of the military is to salute but does the Commander in Chief salute a MoH recipient? If so, can Sgt Petry please be made a White House reporter for Army Times and given a front row seat in the briefing room? I’d love to see the President show respect to this man every day.

[ExNewsExSpook]

Yes, I’ve read Schwartzkopf’s book and I’ve also read Fred Franks’ book as well. In his account (”Into the Storm”), General Franks refutes the criticism leveled at him for the alleged “slow” pace of executing the left hook.

[I got the rope]

Comrades? WTF????

[I got the rope]

Comrades? WTF????

[Pan_Yan]

It AP/MSNBC. Sometimes when posting an article you have to choose the article with the most information in it regardless of source. There were only a few other articles about this last night and they were only one or two paragraphs long, making for extremely short excerpts. I picked an article that I could pull his story out of for the excerpt.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Comrades? WTF????"

Nothing untoward about it. It's a common word in US military circles, and one that SFC Petry is no doubt familiar with. It appears twice in the Ranger Creed.

[unkus]

I’d love to see the President show respect to this man every day.

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Same here. But I don’t think Sgt. Petry could stand seeing the punk every day.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"I’ve also read Fred Franks’ book as well. In his account (”Into the Storm”)"

Yes, that is the one he co-wrote with Tom Clancy. I have read that one also and have both books in my library. I just thought that for Schwartzkopf to call him out in his book after he retired and while Franks was still in the Army was very damning. Especially since by any measurable standard the first Gulf War was a complete success. Not a lot of finger pointing in general. In fact, that was about the only one I ever read.

[unkus]

Thanks for the info.

[I got the rope]

Well...OK...but I don’t remember using it when I was in. As a matter of fact we only used it when we were making fun of dirty hippies or Ivan.