Was he never recommended for the MoH...did it go in that way and was later bumped down to the Navy Cross, with his 2 buddies.
During the Iraqi war years, I often read the citations posted on FR, for my Marines who were recommended for the Navy Cross. Reading them, I often could NOT see why they weren't for the MoH, other than that they were still alive. <
There had been lots of talk that for whatever reason, over the last decade, the Pentagon seemed to prefer than ALL MoH s be posthumous..glad to see it's changed..
“There had been lots of talk that for whatever reason, over the last decade, the Pentagon seemed to prefer than ALL MoH s be posthumous..glad to see it’s changed..”
Too bad they weren’t so concerned when Bob Kerrey, Nebraska got his for leading his company the wrong way and getting his leg blown off with a land mine. That MoH ‘qualified’ him to be Nebraska’s Gov, then later Senator.
Got to keep it rare. Don’t want MoH inflation so they end up having to create something higher than it. Navy Cross is awesome, just awesome. Thank God for those who serve.