Marine (Brown) receives Bronze Star with combat ‘V’ for leadership in Iraq - Battle of Fallujah

Stars and Stripes ^ | June 5, 2005 | Erik Slavin

[Echo Talon]

Well, its sad that Kerry after all these years would not fix this... He has a DD215 so he found it important to clean somethings up. But not this.

[Americanexpat]

Your right. And you would think the clerk that made the corrections would have known better too. Thanks for all the info, very interesting.

[processing please hold]

Is there somewhere I can go to see how my dad won his two Bronze Stars? There must be paperwork somewhere recommending him for them. He wouldn't talk much about what he did in the war and we didn't push him on it.

He won a Meritorious Unit Award, but all I could find was a Meritorious Unit Commendation, are they different awards?

If you can help I would surely appreciate it.

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SEMPER FI BROTHER!

GODSPEED!

[Feckless]

I, too salute the good Maj for a job well done. However, my radar always goes up when a staff weenie is awarded a medal with a "V" device or for valor. Not that some don't deserve it, but a "V" device is not an award you get for attendance and a job well done, although the Bronze Star can be on it's own. The narrative here sounds more like a Bronze Star sans the "V" device.