Posted on 08/16/2006 5:39:51 PM PDT by SBD1
Murtha received his Bronze Star V one year after his service and during his campaign for the 22nd Congressional District according to an article from The Daily Courier dated October 21, 1968. The article says he served one year in Vietnam from August 18, 1966 to July 1, 1967 yet he received his Bronze Star over one year later.
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Thanks for your service!
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his service record...
Or at least that's the way it worked, but Murtha played with the system. First with the help of the republican congressman he would eventually replace, he requested two purple hearts for injuries that vary from account to account by Murtha, then using the logic of he was wounded in action twice, he got awarded a combat "V" added to the Bronze Star he got for just being there and keeping his nose clean while chained to a desk.
Meanwhile his loyal media flacks have concocted enough lies about his service that now thirty years later even Murtha can't remember them all. And like President Nixon ordering John Kerry sent into Cambodia (as told by Kerry in a speech on the Senate floor)The lies become almost laughable in their brazenness(Nixon wasn't even President when Kerry said he was sent into Cambodia) and yet as with most lies if told often enough, they become fact rather then fiction.
It seems unusual to me that a Bronze Star V award would be presented one year after service.
I think it's wierd that he has a degree in economics and thinks we can tax ourselves into prosperity.
I liked the part how he avoided the mines and THAT proved his valor...
A Major in an intelligence billet sounds like a brigrade S-2 to me. I don't know anything about Murtha's actual service, but generally the most valorous thing an S-2 does is stand the S-1 to some drinks at the O-club. Since the paperwork for awards is initiated in the S-1 shop, conveniently located next door to the S-2, one might suspect a whiff or cronyism.
That said, staff officers may spend a lot time writing each other up for awards, but a Bronze Star with a V-device does seem like a stretch for a paper pusher. I'd love to hear from someone who was there. (Problem may be there was a lot of log rolling in that unit, everybody writing everyone else for awards so they could get promoted to an even better billet.)
One retired Army Major General told me that he told a retired Army Colonel to his face that the staff officers in his Divison were not "defending America" in VietNam but writing up paperwork for medals for one another.
See what happens when you enlist and not finish college first!?
Your assumption is correct. I had not heard that he said that. That is disgusting if true and you are correct. Are you sure he wasn't referring to the 8 who are being charged with murder?
Actually, to be technical, we can all say anything we want.
The men you mentioned obviously have very impressive records. That doesn't detract from those with "less" impressive records. I haven't heard what he said, other than his opinion on the current Marines charged with murder. I haven't kept up with it much, so you all may be right...
Impressive? Please look up Navy/Marine Corps use of combat V. Thanks.
After reading the 4th paragraph of the article, "REMF" was my reaction too. But I wasn't with him and don't know the details so I won't judge. I do find it strange there is no mention of actual combat or other contact with the enemy. A "V" Device shouldn't be a "been there" kind of an award.
REMF. PERIOD.
This deserves a bump. Integrity is unfortunately something one rarely sees in today's political landscape, no matter which direction you are looking.
Indeed he was referring to the 8 who were charged with murder.
OH, He disregarded enemy mines and sniper's? WOW. That decribes every man and woman in RVN, who even went to the PX or BX. Add those who went to town or ever left their remington typewriter. What an insult to real Marines.
He was refering to the so called Haditha Marines.
And to be fair I don't believe he has ever said a word about the Pendleton Eight EVER!
(^look ma I can spel eight^)
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