Only ONE Medal of Honor Awarded in Afghan & Iraq Wars...

[elehhhhna]

Wars Lack Medal of Honor
USA Today | December 29, 2005

American troops have been fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan for more than four years, but just one Soldier from those wars has received the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military honor for bravery.

The lack of such medals -- by comparison, two were awarded for fighting in Somalia -- reflects today's unconventional warfare and the superior weaponry of U.S. forces, military experts say. It's not that today's troops lack valor, but they lack opportunities to display it in the extraordinary way that would merit the Medal of Honor.

"The situations today are less likely to warrant the Medal of Honor than in past conflicts," says Nicholas Kehoe, president of the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation. "That doesn't mean our troops aren't acting courageously or even heroically."

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,84029,00.html

[DS1]

1. I guess we'll have to charge them with pointed sticks

:crazy:

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2. The US Army realized that a long time ago when they declared...

"that there will never be another Audie Murphy"

http://www-rucker.army.mil/samc/SergeantAudieMurphyHistory.htm

"What Audie accomplished during this period is most significant and probably will never be repeated by
another soldier, given today's high-tech type of warfare. The U.S. Army has always declared that there will never be another Audie Murphy".

[applegrove]

3. He has to save those medals for the real heroes, the true fighters,

people like Tenent who cannot think for themselves and in doing so get medals.

[FlemingsGhost]

4. One too many ...

There's no honor in being your generation's version of the Nazi Blitzkreig.

It is reserved for those repelling it.