Paul Blart Vindman - Mall Cop
Purple Heart? Vehicle he was in struck by IED. “Shrapnel pierced the armor” and “I returned to service same day:”!?
WHAT was his injury??? How cheap is a Purple Heart?
Hawkeye says, 'Yeah, an eggshell.'
Enlisted soldier, loses leg. Well, maybe he should get one, too.
That sounds like a John Kerry Bandaid-level Purple Heart.
Depending upon rank, surprisingly cheap.
Most officers at/above the grade of 0-4 are able to place themselves in relatively safe situations in order to exploit anything that may occur.
I personally know of two that not only arranged incidents, they wrote their own citations for the award.
One of them was involved in a traffic accident wherein the sedan he was in hit a guy wire and it broke the windshield, causing a piece of the glass to go inside his vest.
By the time he got the vest off, he was bleeding.
Instant PH!
As for the POS that was sitting in the wit chair for the 'rats, he most likely shed a minimum amount of blood outside the wire in a relatively simple incident.
I don't know the particulars of it, but I would assume it involved an IED and his presence in an armored vehicle of some sort.
He either caught a small piece of shrapnel or hit his head on the roof of the vehicle while not wearing his helmet.
As for his CIB, the requirements for award of that particular badge have changed back and forth since WWII.
When I was awarded mine, the requirement was for not less than 90 days assigned to a ground combat unit, in active ground combat, while performing duty within one of the three Combat Arms.
Now, it has been re-written several times...and who writes such regulations?...why, the ossifers, of course.
I've seen 120 pound S-1 weenies walking around with a CIB that never went outside the wire and didn't know which damned end of the rifle that the bullet comes out of.
Glory seekers such as Vindman and others have cheapened the process for recognition of the sacrifices of good soldiers.
It is my personal opinion, based on what I have been told from persons I still communicate with, that Vindman is a "perfumed prince", or at least aspires to such.
Some examples of a "perfumed prince": General Wesley Clark...Admiral Stanley McRaven...truth be known, the list stretches all the way back to Patton and MacArthur, with MacArthur being the ultimate "perfumed prince".
Vindman is especially egregious, in that he is foreign-born, hardly disguises the fact that he thinks he is the greatest statesman since Chamberlain and refused to acknowledge that he works for not only the Commander-in-Chief, but also the people of the United States.
Plus, he is a blow hard fatass, never commanded troops (supposedly was a platoon leader in his early career..but we all know about shave-tail idiot LT's, don't we?) and has delusions of grandeur.
I don't believe for a minute that he was asked by the Ukraine government to be the Defense Minister...and if he was, and did not report such up his CofC, then he should be Court-Martialed...period.
Sorry for the long wind...I just kinda got carried away with it.
Have a nice day.