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In the photo in the article I bet obama wanted to strangle Capt Swenson.
obama could not have as he doesn’t have the upper body strength to do so...
So the Army honored the Medal of Honor receiver by spying on him?..
quite dishonorable.. quite a mishmash when the Commander in Chief.. is a proven bonafide TRAITOR..
and is salting all the military services and executive branch agencys with other traitors..
and is leveraging Congress and the Supremes with other malafactors..
The Medal of Honor has always been, in part, a political award because of the honor and prestige that the public bestowed on it from the very beginning during the Civil War. Politicians and budding politicians actively lobbied to receive it, and many succeeded for deeds that deserved, at best, the accolade: Good Job! Of late, the Medal of Honor has become a pawn in the identity politics game and you have best be among the favored ethnic or economic class if you hope to be recognized at the highest level. The decisions on the award are made today by an anonymous group of Beltway warriors who closest brush with death was the dreaded traffic bottleneck at the Occoquan Creek on I-95 during the dash for home at the end of another bureaucratic day in Washington. They nickpick ad infinitum and cannot know the sound that they have never heard: bullets buzzing past your ear. They are not worthy of being in the same zip code as the men who are nominated for high honors of valor, but they do it with glee, proud in their sanctimony. A pox on them and their progeny forever.
Swenson had the courage to speak out, as he had the courage to act when death had come to play. The pinhead bureaucrats marked him for destruction and delayed his award for too long to be decent. When the award was approved, they made him wear a 10th Mountain Division combat badge and the citation attributed him to the 1st Battalion, 32d Infantry in order to promote the Public Affairs version of events. In truth, he was part of an advisory team assigned to the 1st Infantry Division and much of his challenges that day were dealing with an absent battalion commander, an indifferent battalion executive officer, and an incompetent Tactical Operations Center staff from their operational headquarters, the 1st Battalion, 32d Infantry. It was ugly and lessons needed to be learned. They were not, because appearances matter more than substance.
Courage is only recognized when it fits into the political message that civilian bureaucrats want to pass on to the American people.
For those veterans of the 1st Battalion, 32d Infantry, I do not mean to cast stones unless you were in the TOC that day. Your battalion has one of the highest casualty rates of any unit in either Iraq or Afghanistan since 2003. You did your job and more, but someone let CPT Swenson, his soldiers and Marines down and good men died. It is a story that deserves the light of day.
“Three Army officers were eventually reprimanded months after the battle — which killed five U.S. troops — for “negligent leadership” during air support requests.”
Note that they were not drummed out of the service but had sticky notes put in their 201 files which were probably removed after 90 days.
Active Duty ping.
went to source but it looked like a top secret CIA file so I found a couple of other second hand links...
http://www.freebeacon.com/issues/army-targets-medal-of-honor-recipient-over-amazon-book-review/
http://www.newsmax.com/US/Will-Swenson-medal-of-honor-army-spying/2015/02/26/id/627087/
Capt. Swenson’s review of the military command is just a snapshot.
Let’s not forget it is THIS part of the military that FReepers are criticizing (sometimes vaguely) when they do so at FR, not our fighting men & women, such as & including brave Capt. Swenson.
