Posted on 08/09/2018 8:34:38 PM PDT by mrsmith
In the newly released 1.5-minute Air Force video, a figure identified as Chapman can be seen charging up a steep slope toward enemy positions atop the 10,000-foot peak... Chapman and SEAL team leader Britt Slabinski teamed up to attack enemy positions. After assaulting the first of two positions, identified as bunkers in the footage, Chapman abandons cover to attack a second position where an enemy machine gun was firing on his team, when he is wounded.
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Im not positive youd get many takers. How many brave men would be wanting to extol their own virtue in front of a class?You would come nearer, getting the people who advocated for the medal award to talk about it. But even at that, the number of awards pales compared to the number of schools in America - let alone the number of classes.
“I was talking about Iraq.”
My night to be stupid. Sorry.
Hey, no problem! You’re obviously not stupid. If you were, you’d be on Democratic Underground, not here!
Not one word in his Medal of Honor citation that he was inadvertently left behind on the mountain top, where for up to an hour he killed countless insurgents and died when he ran out of bullets. The Navy held up his MOH for years because they didnt want it coming out that they left him behind. But thats exactly what happened. And in the end the Navy got their way. Unless someone is familiar with the operation youll never know the true story.
“died when he ran out of bullets”... says it all.
Yeah, its surprising he got the Medal, considering how bad it makes the PTB look.
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