[fatima]

Washington Post ‏@washingtonpost 17m Aaron Alexis was awarded the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal and the National Defense Service Medal http://wapo.st/1bnolHG

[clintonh8r]

Everybody with a pulse is “awarded” those...

[Colonel_Flagg]

Those are both virtually automatic awards, fatima. The Global War on Terrorism medal goes to anyone who has served actively since 9/11/01 and the National Defense Service Medal goes to anyone who serves honorably any time during a declared state of emergency. If this guy’s discharge was honorable, he’d get it.