Thursday, February 14, 2013

Distinguished Service Medal Ranking is Disgusting

This article begins:  "Barely 24 hours after the Pentagon announced its new medal for cyber warriors and drone pilots, the Veterans of Foreign Wars is demanding the decoration's ranking be lowered.

"The Distinguished Warfare Medal is ranked above both the Bronze Star with Combat "V" and the Purple Heart – medals typically awarded for combat in which the servicemember's life is at risk.
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/02/14/vfw-wants-new-medal-ranked-lower.html?comp=700001075741&rank=2

I could have written that the ranking of this award above the Bronze Star with "V" and the Purple Heart is "unbelievable" but I am too cynical and have to argue that the ranking is disgusting.  Those who wear or know the circumstances of others who wear or were buried with the BS w/"V" awarded under direct combat conditions should be angered and insulted by this ranking.


To place such as award above the Bronze Star with "Valor" device, an award presented for valor in direct, face to face, ground combat is ridiculous and an insult to those who wear or went to their graves earning the Bronze Star award for valor. To place the award above the Purple Heart which is awarded for wounds received in direct combat and often the only award presented posthumously to a soldier killed in action is morally reprehensible and unjustifiable.

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