I know of USAF maintenance officers who got Bronze Stars for Valor in Vietnam. They were stationed in Thailand. They would sign out a Huey and go stooge around the border between Laos and Vietnam until some commie took a potshot at them. They’d fire back with the M60 and then return and put themselves in for medals. And get them. Completely Bogus.
Milley was in Desert Storm. I’ll bet they were handing the medals out like candy bars. I’d be very surprised if they weren’t. After all. It was the only chance to get a medal since Granada. Who knows when it would happen again? There must have been hundreds of staff pukes screaming for a chance to ride a tank and “get into the action”. That CIB is worth a pile of gold to a REMF.
Roger that.