RETREAD ZOT!!! Kerry SIlver Star with V real

9/3/04 | pdxbandit

[pdxbandit]

http://www.defendamerica.mil/articles/jul2004/a072004a.html http://www.milehighcaf.org/leader.asp

http://biography.lotsofgoodbooks.com/us_bio-item_id-0826330134-search_type-AsinSearch-locale-us.html

Affectionately know as "Top", was a retired Master Gunnery Sergeant, United States Marine Corps. Top Shablack during his service was awarded the Silver Star with Valor, the Bronze Star with Valor, and the Purple Heart just to name a few.

In Memory of Aviation Ordnanceman John Shablack: Affectionately know as "Top", was a retired Master Gunnery Sergeant, United States Marine Corps. Top Shablack during his service was awarded the Silver Star with Valor, the Bronze Star with Valor, and the Purple Heart just to name a few. Top served as a Chapter 22 Board of Director as Vice President of Chapter 22. Our Aviation Ordnanceman of the Quarter (AOQ) Program is named in Honor of Top Shablack.

FORWARD OPERATING BASE WARHORSE, Iraq, July 20, 2004 — The 1st Infantry Division Commander, Maj. Gen. John R.S. Batiste, awarded the Silver Star medal with Valor, one of the highest military decorations, to Staff Sgt. Raymond Bittinger, an infantryman from the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment and attached to the 1st Battalion, 6th Field Artillery, according to 1st Infantry Division officials.

After jumping out of airplanes for four years, I decided it was time to try flying them. In the Army’s Warrant Officer Candidate program, the top ten percent of the initial training class are offered fixed wing training. I completed their fixed wing program and, after a transition course in the Dehaviland Otter at Ft. Ord California, in 1967, I was off to Viet Nam. I became the company’s standardization officer, flying direct support for our Green Berets in the delta. I flew over 1,100 hours that year, I was awarded 23 air medals with an oak leaf cluster, I was shot down once and awarded the Silver Star with valor. Upon completing my military obligation, I was hired by Continental Airlines in 1969.

An Accidental Soldier: Memoir of a Mestizo in Vietnam

Garcia's "tour of duty" ends when his squad is ambushed, two of his men die, and he is seriously wounded. Garcia tells us about the irony of receiving a Silver Star with Valor for his actions in that ambush. "I was given a Silver Star for failing to read an ambush. I was responsible for my squad members being wounded or killed because I failed to read that ambush. .... I was responsible for our walk into that mess and I was only trying to get us out. It was a mistake, not valor."

In the end Garcia throws his Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, Army Commendation Medal, Vietnamese Cross of gallantry, and Purple heart on to the lawn of the White House. I witnessed a similar act in ...

http://www.aclassicvoicefilms.com/amateurmilitaryfilms.htm

MSG Ricardo A. Garcia. Served 7th Cav, and later the Americal. Fought in The battle of the Ia Drang Valley with LTC Hal Moore. Richard earned a Silver Star with valor,was badly wounded there. Served three tours in Nam. He never really came home

[stockpirate]

You left out the kid was wounded by an M60 machine gun.

[Samwise]

Nice try. LOL.

"If you wind up being less than what you're pretending to be, there is a major confrontation with value, self-esteem and your sense of how others view you."

John F'ing Kerry

[flashbunny]

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[bmwcyle]

They are sound like more than band-aid wounds.

[Rome2000]

You would think horse face would get the message that talking about Vietnam isn't exactly the brightest thing to do (if the concept is to win) but then Kerry never does the right thing.

[Ditto]

OK. You have Marine and Army. Do you have a Navy Silver Star with V device? The Navy says they have NEVER used the V with the Silver Star.

[baseballmom]

Hey Ronnie, do you know this guy he is talking about from Ia Drang Valley??

[Rebelbase]

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[wardaddy]

There was fellow on Hedgecock today who disputes your research.

We'll be seeing ya.

[Rakkasan1]

and I have a V device with a V device on it.
so it's really a V squared device.

[gilliam]

See the NAVY Awards Manual, which describes the laws concerning Combat Distinguishing Devices: Prior to 1974, "the 'V' was authorized for wear on the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Navy Commendation Medal and Navy Achievement Medal." Since then, about four more medals have been authorized. BUT NOT the Silver Star.

[HawaiianGecko]

I agree, the man has to be a dunce to continue spewing 'Nam everyday. It's like throwing gasoline on a fire. I guess he thinks that between himself and the main stream media, they can shout down the SBVFT

[ThreeYearLurker]

The NAVY does not award Combat V's with the Silver Star

[PetroniDE]

HERE KITTY KITTY KITTY !!!!!

[Boundless]

> The Navy doesn't award the 'V' for valor under combat
> since the silver star citation itself uses wording
> "valor under combat" as part of it's boilerplate.
> Why would the Navy want to look stupid by awarding a
> redundent medal?

Double secret valor.

The is a classified award and how dare you question
John Kerry's service to North Vietnam.

[gilliam]

and I have a V device with a V device on it. so it's really a V squared device.

If it looks like this: VV It is probably that notorious 'W' device :)

[walkingdead]

Commies aren't used to telling the difference between branches of military service. Remember EVERYTHING is collective......

[wildwood]

okay, here's the thing...why would a liberal bother to waste time defending this loser??? nobody, but NOBODY likes kerry!!

i teach in a high school and even the teachers don't like (though the morons will vote for him). my liberal students are scornful of bush, but will NEVER like kerry! they don't talk about him, they don't praise him, they only say how much they hate bush

i really sense something huge is happening...there is tremendous deflation on the left. they are countering their disappointment with, "i hate ALL poliicians! they are ALL dishones!"

[Servant of the 9]

While a commander may in ignorance do a Silver Star with a V or a clerk may get creative, there is no such medal authorized by the Dept. of Defense, and never has been.

Department of Defense spokesmen made that clear a couple of days ago.

It is no more valid than a "Pink Heart" for hemorrhoids would be, no matter who signed off on it.

So9

[silverleaf]

So bandit,

If a Silver Star with "v" means it was awarded for valor- what does a Silver Star without "v" mean? Hmmm.

Buh-Bye.