NASA ROLE NOW MUSLIM OUTREACH
JOHN BRENNAN FIRST MUSLIM DCI
Posted on 03/11/2013 10:30:01 AM PDT by bigtoona
An Air Force chaplain has been awarded a Bronze Star for his service in crafting an especially good PowerPoint about how to treat Islamic religious materials with sensitivity, according to Ohio’s Dayton Daily News. After U.S. troops in Afghanistan accidentally burned copies of the Koran, sparking riots that took over 30 lives, Lieutenant Colonel Jon Trainer came to the rescue:
After the accidental burning last year of Qurans by U.S. troops in Afghanistan sparked deadly rioting, an Air National Guard chaplain from Springfield stepped in and potentially saved countless American lives.
For his effort, Lt. Col. Jon Trainer received the prestigious Bronze Star — a medal given for heroic or meritorious achievement in connection with operations against an armed enemy.
And he did it with a PowerPoint presentation. . . .
Within 48 hours, Trainer developed a PowerPoint presentation on the proper handling and disposal of Islamic religious material that was seen by every American — military and civilian alike — in Afghanistan. The presentation then was distributed to the U.S. for use in all pre-deployment training.
The piece explains that Trainer also helped teach service members just how wide the breadth of their sensitivity had to be, covering what constitutes Islamic religious material in the first place. “When a Muslim writes down even a few verses from the Quran on a piece of paper,” he told the paper, “that immediately gets that same protected status.”
Trainer is a nondenominational Christian minister who has been in the Air Force for 17 years. He is also being recognized for his work running the Army’s suicide-prevention program, in which he’s trained more than 36,000 service members.
The Bronze Star is the U.S. military’s fifth most prestigious combat award, and can be awarded for acts of merit or valor in a combat zone (if the military deems it an act of heroism, the award is given with a “V” device).
Last weekend my family and I were going through my mother’s personal effects. She passed away on Christmas Day. In her papers I found a bundle of orders from the 7th Infantry Division. My father had been an infantryman in the 7th through five campaigns in the Pacific. None of us had ever known he received a Bronze Star for valor. His citation is below:
Headquarters Seventh Infantry Division
APO #7 c/o Postmaster
San Francisco, CA.
7 March 1945
General Orders #30
Award of the Bronze Star Medal (Posthumous)
Award of the Bronze Star Medal
Award of the Oak Leaf Cluster
Section I
Award of the Bronze Star Medal,-—By direction of the President, under the provisions of Executive Order No. 9419, 4 February 1944, (Sec II, Bull No.3, WD 1944) and pursuant to authority contained in AR 600-45 (Decorations) , 22 September 1943, as amended by Change No.3, 25 April 1944, a Bronze Star Medal is awarded to the following-named military personnel:
Sergeant FV, (then Private First Class),(Service Number), Infantry, United States Army. For heroic achievement in connection with military operations against the enemy on 16 November 1944 during the Leyte Island Operation. During an attack in the foot hills west of Guinarona, Sergeant FV was a member of a rifle squad enveloping an enemy position containing two machine guns and four riflemen. Moving in from the left the squad was held up and to get to the position they had to move about fifty yards in the open. Under heavy machine gun and rifle fire, Sergeant FV made a one-man assault and firing his weapon as he moved, he succeeded in wiping out four riflemen and the two machine gunners. This display of courage and utter disregard for his own personal safety was a determining factor in his platoon completing its mission without further casualties.
In light of this recent family discovery, it sickens me to see what we award the Bronze Star for these days. We coddle our enemies and one day they will kill us.
My stepson gave up his arm and leg, and a WHOLE bunch of his Marine brothers in Iraq. All he got was a purple heart. Guess you have to be some kind of techie to get these high level awards these days. Blood, sweat, and tears are not valued.
mozlums are inbred pedophile-worshipping misogyinsts.
There’s my sensitivity.
My uncle, 101st AB (Normandy, Bastogne),
got a Bronze for capturing a German roadblock and its personnel. Seems like you get one today if you can take a dump and not fall back in it.
I am that chaplain; member of FR since 2000.
It would have been kind of Patrick Brennan to at least drop me or my commander a line before posting an article on The Corner is a manner that is demeaning of my service to this great nation.
Unless Mr. Brennan or someone else at The Corner (which I frequent almost daily) has read my Bronze Star citation in full, or has talked to my commander, or others with whom I have served, or even myself, it seems journalistic malpractice at the very best to just post-away.
And here is what I posted at NRO:
“This is an end of tour award. Standard fair for the rank, position, and responsibility I held during this tour—Training Chaplain for all the of the chaplains in Afghanistan and Garrison Chaplain at New Kabul Compound in Kabul. Events of serious consequence occurred while in theater; the article highlights those. The way the original article is written implies the BSM was given for writing a PPT presentation. This does not represent the facts nor the bullet points in the BSM write-up.”
This just highlights to me the dangers of our new media where a journo feels free to run with a blog post or posters feel free to demean someone’s character without making an ounce of effort to get the facts.
The guy who wrote the original story was an old fashioned journalist who came to my office at the request of my commander. He came with a pen and paper and took notes—just like the good old days.
Thanks!
Chap T
The country is toast.
5.56mm
Not really any surprises here.
Its all designed to destroy everything we hold true and have a value for.
Most bullet points associated with the Bronze Star are associated with enemy fire than powerpoint outlines, so it is newsworthy. Then again, I was fortunate to not have the uniform embellished at the end of tour.
Did you find most Muslims receptive when witnessing the Gospel to them? What approach did you find most successful when bringing them the Good News?
I could actually see a platoon bay of Admin Specialists reciting this while lying in the rack with their Thinkpads on their chests...
There are two types of Bronze Stars...one with a “V” for valor (awarded for meritorious actions in combat) and one sans “V” for meritorious service. I was awarded the latter for service at the command level over a period of six months.
I served at New Kabul Compound in the center of Kabul. We did not mingle with the local population. When not in uniform, I have traveled to numerous Muslim countries and discovered that once a relationship is established, conversation is free-wheeling. Many Muslims are nominal at best in their faith and open to dialogue.
When I deployed to Iraq in 2005-06, the standing order from the Brigade Commander went as follows:
If you are E-7 and above, the Bronze Star is yours to lose.
If you are E-6 and below, the Bronze Star is yours to win - provided you had signatures from several field-grade officers attesting to the merits of your “alleged” valor.
The Bronze Star has been reduced to nothing more than a Sunday School attendance pin.
Can't rightly say about PowerPoint Rangers, but PowerPoint Engineers are bloody near useless even WITH their PowerPoint.
And the Koran teaches the good Muslim to lie to the infidel. This is called Taqiyyah. And you have seen it.
They want to make the Bronze Star just as meaningful as Obama's Nobel Peace Prize.
Thanks,very creative........I would like to meet the chaplain,pull off the bronze star and then bitch slap the guy for accepting it....disgraceful.
Well there we have it. My Grandfather earned 2 of Bronze Stars. One in WWII and another in the Korean War. The bravery and sacrifice he was willing to endure pales in comparison to teaching about the Koran.
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