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.@SECWAR pinned the Soldier’s Medal on Maj. Ryan Reynolds for his heroic actions on November 26, 2025.
5/4/2026
Posted on 05/04/2026 4:50:59 PM PDT by ransomnote
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8h.@SECWAR pinned the Soldier’s Medal on Maj. Ryan Reynolds for his heroic actions on November 26, 2025.
5/4/2026
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That is the medal awarded to JFK, except it was the Navy version of it.
What happened on 11/26/25?
I think that is the time that lunatic ambushed and shot some National Guard soldiers patrolling in DC. Someone can correct me if that’s not it.
Correct:
BRAVE AI:
Army Maj. Ryan Reynolds was awarded the Soldier’s Medal by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a ceremony at the Pentagon’s Hall of Heroes on May 4, 2026. This honor recognized his extraordinary heroism on November 26, 2025, when he and Air Force Maj. Edwin Stanfield (who received the Airman’s Medal) responded to an ambush near the White House that killed Spc. Sarah Beckstrom and wounded SSgt. Andrew Wolfe. Reynolds and Stanfield are credited with subduing the attacker and acting decisively to protect others and prevent further loss of life.
Maybe Ryan Reynolds can play Maj. Ryan Reynolds in the movie!..............
Awesome.
A good soldier.
I believe the Navy medal awarded President Kennedy was the Navy Cross. The Navy’s equivalent to the Soldier’s Medal is the Navy and Marine Corps Medal. It is awarded for Heroism in a non-combat environment.
No, JFK was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for a non-combat act.
The Navy knew what they were doing.
By the way, Lieutenant Commander Lyndon Baines Johnson, United States Naval Reserve, was awarded a Silver Star.
My mistake, you are correct.
It’s a surprise and I post it often, but most people don’t catch the significance like you did.
How about LBJ’s Silver Star for duty with the army.
LBJ wanted to be a passenger on an Army Air Corps bombing mission but his aircraft developed engine trouble and had to return to base before getting into anything, for the crew it was a normal called off mission but for LBJ it earned him a Silver Star for some mysterious reason since nothing happened.
One must keep the politicos in this case Old Man Kennedy well buttered!
I believe at the time LBJ was the chair of an important war time House committee. Another example of how you must keep the politicos well buttered. MacArthur Kew that!
JFK has been recreated as one of America’s greatest WWII heroes, here are the 1960 election major players.
In 1960 4 veterans were on the ballot, JFK and Nixon, and their veep candidates.
Nixon was a respected logistics Navy Lt. Commander in the Pacific.
LBJ as a Navy Lt. Commander was awarded a silver Star.
Henry Cabot Lodge was a big-time hero and Nixon’s running mate.
“Lodge was a major in the 1st Armored Division. That tour ended in July 1942, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered congressmen serving in the military to resign one of the two positions, and Lodge, who chose to remain in the Senate, was ordered by Secretary of War Henry Stimson to return to Washington.
After returning to Washington and winning re-election in November 1942, Lodge went to observe allied troops serving in Egypt and Libya, and in that position was on hand for the British retreat from Tobruk.
Lodge served the first year of his new Senate term, but then resigned his Senate seat on February 3, 1944 in order to return to active duty, the first U.S. Senator to do so since the Civil War. He saw action in Italy and France.
Promoted to lieutenant colonel, in the fall of 1944 Lodge single-handedly captured a four-man German patrol. By March 1945 he was decorated with the French Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre with palm. His American decorations included the Legion of Merit and the Bronze Star Medal. At the end of the war in 1945 he served as a liaison and interpreter to U.S. Sixth Army Group commander General Jacob Devers in Devers’ surrender negotiations with the German forces in western Austria.
After the war Lodge returned to Massachusetts and resumed his political career. He continued his status as an Army Reserve officer and rose to the rank of major general.”
Yes the power of modern PR.
Nixon’s wartime story is said to parallel in many ways the fictional Mr Roberts (See Broadway play & movie). One of constantly volunteering for a combat assignment but never getting one.
typo
Kew= knew
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