The medal is a very humbling award to be earned...
Both C.O.’s I served with when I was in the Fleet both ended their careers as Flag officers, one a 2 star, and the other a 3 star, who just a few years back ended his serviceas the superintendent of the Naval Academy...I’d go to war with either of those two guys in a heartbeat...Good things happen to good people who deserve that kind of respect...And they know they would not be where they are without the support and loyalty of folks like us who helped them get there...
It flows both ways to be brutally honest...
I never earned a major accomadation during my service, but I ran into Admiral Rempt years later at a political function, and I have to say after about 5 seconds he remembered who I was and it was on after that...We had one of the best remenising discussions I ever had with someone I served with...He was the keynote speaker at the event and he (basically ordered me, hehehe) to stand and be recognized as someone he truely respected and had served with years earlier...
So if a Flag officer is capable of doing that with someone they basically served with, I am absolutely sure they would be render honors and recognize a live hero like this Marine is, and will always be remembered as...
Flag officers don’t like saluting enlisted men first.
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Bull. Every General that I ever saw went out of their way to salute MoH winners. They revere them and I have been honored to meet many of them. I never once saw the slightest hesitation from any officer in saluting the retired gentlemen who wore that medal. I know this firsthand and I am not sure why you think that?
They can live with it, and like it, or live with it and *not* like it. But, if they absolutely, positively cannot live with it, I'm sure they've been in the service long enough to know where the door marked "EXIT" is...
the infowarrior
I don't believe that. I haven't known a lot of flag officers, but all the ones I've known would consider it a high honor to offer a salute to a MoH recipient, in or out of uniform. It's not the sort of thing that happens every day.