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Air Force General Gary North Revealed To Have Denied Wounded Troop Purple Heart Medal
Military Corruption Dot Com ^ | 07-11-2011 | Major Glenn MacDonald US Army (ret.)

Posted on 07/16/2011 8:33:14 PM PDT by Tea Party Reveler

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I remember the Air Force Times running the stories about Gen. North screwing those 2 C-17 Pilots in that Blackwater Road Rage case/incident in Afghanistan. Will the Senate and the President make him the next AF Chief of Staff?
1 posted on 07/16/2011 8:33:24 PM PDT by Tea Party Reveler
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Sounds like the prefect candidate for head of Joint Chiefs when Obama is re-elected.


2 posted on 07/16/2011 8:37:52 PM PDT by garjog
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I believe that a praying mantis has more concern for the well being of their offspring then Gen. North has for anybody else. He seems to have a very vicious asocial personality. One day the axe he wields will fall on his own head.


3 posted on 07/16/2011 8:43:54 PM PDT by Tea Party Reveler
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That Jill Metzger scandal was shocking, and they got away with it, it seems that we and Kyrgyzstan have been at odds ever since.


4 posted on 07/16/2011 8:50:51 PM PDT by ansel12 ( Bristol Palin's book "Not Afraid Of Life: My Journey So Far" becomes New York Times, best seller.)
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This should be another interesting thread.
5 posted on 07/16/2011 8:51:47 PM PDT by Leroy S. Mort
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And yet, Predator Drone Pilots get Bronze Stars from frickin Arizona!


6 posted on 07/16/2011 8:58:18 PM PDT by occamrzr06
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Sounds like the prefect candidate for head of Joint Chiefs when Obama is re-elected.

Don't you mean when Obama declares a State of Emergency? Or were you simply referring to the most corrupt election process that America will ever see?

7 posted on 07/16/2011 9:00:46 PM PDT by He Rides A White Horse ((((unite))))
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"And yet, Predator Drone Pilots get Bronze Stars from frickin Arizona!"

Seriously?

8 posted on 07/16/2011 9:09:53 PM PDT by cookcounty (Nullius in Verba. "Take no man's word for it.")
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You can always just hit the “Caps Lock” key one more time to cease the shouting...


9 posted on 07/16/2011 9:09:58 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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Give it a break with the CAPS lock, and more people might read your posts..............


10 posted on 07/16/2011 9:15:24 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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Same old Sh!t different generation...


11 posted on 07/16/2011 9:17:14 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: cookcounty

http://wingsoveriraq.com/2010/03/02/uav-operators-gain-new-respect/

Yea, Seriously!


12 posted on 07/16/2011 9:22:28 PM PDT by occamrzr06
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“Officer and a gentleman” doesn’t mean what it used to.


13 posted on 07/16/2011 9:28:14 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, A Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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Rant much?


14 posted on 07/16/2011 9:33:02 PM PDT by TankerKC (I feel 271 degrees out of sync today, which isn't half bad.)
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It’s copied from original site.


15 posted on 07/16/2011 10:07:31 PM PDT by huldah1776
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>>>> Stunned that North would do what he did, Green inquired through an informed source as to the bully-boy general’s “reason” for his action. He was told that North sputtered: “We just can’t have everyone who gets a bump on the head receiving the Purple Heart.”

How does this meet any legal or commonsense definition of “corruption”? Lacking a showing this was done for reasons other then as a judgment call, the worst you can call it is a mistake.

>>> [EDITOR’S NOTE: We welcome more stories of brutality on the part of Gen. North from our many Air Force readers out there. All we ask is that you document your charges and are willing to come forward to confront the bully with the facts. Thank you.]

Reporters working an undisguised vendetta generally aren’t accorded much credibility. For obvious reasons.


16 posted on 07/16/2011 10:26:14 PM PDT by tlb
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>>> “And yet, Predator Drone Pilots get Bronze Stars from frickin Arizona!”

And if the Predator pilots meet the criteria, why not? The provisions for the Bronze Star include:

c. Awards may be made for acts of heroism, performed under circumstances described above, which are of lesser degree than required for the award of the Silver Star.

d. The Bronze Star Medal may be awarded for meritorious achievement or meritorious service according to the following:

(1) Awards may be made to recognize single acts of merit or meritorious service. The lesser degree than that required for the award of the Legion of Merit must nevertheless have been meritorious and accomplished with distinction.

In other words, eligibility isn’t limited to directly jumping on the back of a Tiger Tank.

The Predator pilots are doing fine work killing Jihadists. Good for them. And if they can rack up the kill without giving the Taliban a chance to shoot them back, so much the better.


18 posted on 07/16/2011 10:53:25 PM PDT by tlb
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Bronze Stars are are only awarded to troops in a combat zone that are not participating in aerial flight. I doubt that these pilots in AZ would qualify.

More likely they would qualify for a Meritorious Service Medal.

19 posted on 07/16/2011 11:27:51 PM PDT by NYFreeper
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Meritorious Service Medal....or Air Medal.


20 posted on 07/16/2011 11:31:45 PM PDT by NYFreeper
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