Guess you didn't have anyone fighting in that valley - dubbed 'The Valley of Death", huh? The 173rd - took 80% of the fighting in the whole country - and, percentage wise, the dying.
They were in, literally, hundreds of firefights - day in day out - and stuck out on tiny little firebases that they pickaxed out of the mounaint tops - that were so remote - and lacking things like running water, hot food, showers, a chair to sit on - humping up and down the Hindu Kush Mts, sent out on patrols deliberately to 'draw the enemy out" - i.e., Judas Goats -
Don't even get me started.
A suggestion - watch Sebastian Junger's movies "RESTREPO" and the new one making he theaters no "KORENGAL"
this soldier was in one of the most horrific battles of the war - and they fought the whole day, vastly outnumbered - and were given NO AIR COVER
Who the hell are YOU to denigrate any of these men by suggesting that, since they didn't die, that maybe they're getting the MOH too easily.
Unless you were hanging by the phone, or waiting for messages otherwise - or had spent months on end Thanking god every day and every night that one of YOUR loved ones made it one more day in that hell hole - knowing what was really going on there...Then just maybe you shouldn't opine.
If you read my whole post rather than latch on to a single sentence, you’ll see that I said I agreed with the Obama administration’s policy and the awarding of these MOHs. My conclusion was that Bush hadn’t awarded enough MOHs.