Warrior Nurse awarded Bronze Star

6/24/2014 | Self

[Warrior Nurse]

Warrior Nurse was awarded the Bronze Star

[Warrior Nurse]

Thanks Kristinn if you don't mind could you post a side by side of me and my father he received his Silver and Bronze Stars 61 years ago this month. I am just following in his footsteps. Who says father's behavior don't impact their sons.

[Warrior Nurse]

Thanks my only regret is that I was not in Iraq with your sons this is my 3rd time over here.

[kristinn]

[kristinn]

[kristinn]

Side by side is above my skills. I posted them both one after the other.

[TheDon]

Thank you for your service! Thanks for taking such good care of our service members. My daughter just got back from a tour in Afghanistan.

[Warrior Nurse]

Thanks I guess that is a twitter thing

[KSCITYBOY]

Congrats.

[Semper911]

This is the must-see thread of the week. Those pics will make me stand a little taller today with hope for our country.

Thank you for your service to our country, Warrior Nurse. Bravo Zulu

[Jim Robinson]

Well done!! Congratulations and thank you very much!!

[NEMDF]

Also, I am not a sir. But it’s OK. And with the mess that Iraq is in now, please don’t spend much energy or emotion regretting.

[ryan71]

Thank you for your service, commitment and loyalty. You’re a credit to the uniform and the United States of America.

[ryan71]

That’s too cool.

[dadfly]

wow. we get to rub elbows and keyboards with some real heros on FR. Thank you and God bless you and your father for your service.

[Eska]

Good Deal Warrior, proving yourself in battle is an honor many don't have the integrity to do. Something to be proud of.

I have a nephew who is a AF PJ, several deployments in Afghan since 2010. He got a silver star & a couple bronze stars; and he doesn't see it as anything special actually. I think I'm more proud than he is, ha ha. Anyway, I got picts & the citations describing the event; they once were online on AF site. They had to recover a deceased pilot and Taliban opened up on them while they were winching body to pavehawk. Heli pilot had to exit area, flight engineer wounded, RPGs being shot at pavehawk, and PJs wouldn't leave without body. They got shot at for 6 hours, Taliban shouted their intents to take them prisoner,(was like 40-50 taliban 100 yards away in the rocks) then when AF showed back up; nephew got to give them reverse azimuths for hell fire strikes; told me was the coolest thing he ever done; imagine that, ha ha. Anyway, me don't mean to go on, figured you would appreciate hearing the story as it's in your chosen field.

Congrats on the award, it will follow you in a positive way all your life. Both you and your father have proven yourselves in battle as truly patriotic Americans.

[februus]

Congratulations, Warrior!

[Tax-chick]

Congratulations! And thank you for your service!

[Maigrey]

Here you are. My small gift for you, for being one amazing trauma Nurse and outstanding Navy nurse. Hooah!

(Granddad was a USN Corpsman with a USMC unit at Guadalcanal; Dad was blue water Navy in Vietnam; Uncles in the USMC and another in the Army in country.)

Salute!

[sweetiepiezer]

Thank you so much for your service, it is greatly appreciated.
Today is my day to hug a soldier, consider yourself hugged.
Great job soldier!!!!!

Hugs.

[firebrand]

Congratulations and then some! You deserve it big-time!