“Inter-service bickering got in the way.”
Yeah, and the attitude of Obongo’s anti-military appointees had nothing to do with it.
Gob Bless all that serve us peons.
No one at Newsweek is fit to scoop up their dog poop.
God has blessed us with these brave men.
But when, when, can we get out of this insane business of trying to turn animals into humans in these worthless countries like Afghanistan? When can our military come home, we bar the door from immigration from these primitive and dark parts of the Earth, and just let them be as they have been for thousands of years.
It is what they want to be, is it not?
It is absolute insanity to pretend that we are accomplishing anything in any of these ridiculous wars.
For crying out loud, we the GOP have all branches of the government, can we please stop this Democrat senseless exercise of trying to Americanize animals across the globe? Can we just keep them out until they choose to modernize? Or hell, just keep them out forever. We have no earthly reason to want them here. They add nothing and will add nothing. They will detract only.
Have we not seen enough total failure, decade in and decade out, ever since Viet Nam, in perpetuating these @ss#)1e wars?
USAF enlisted rarely receive medals. It’s a sad situation that also feeds the armchair warrior reputation of the AF.
Some of the first and last boots on the ground are AF.
Believe any Newsweek article written about anything military is written with the most poisonous intent.
You are correct; TSgt Chapman was hit by enemy fire and went down; other SEALs and combat controllers saw no sign of movement and assumed he was dead. Only later, reviewing drone footage, did we determine that Chapman was still alive. He fought on, and killed at least one Taliban advancing on his position before he finally died. By that time, the rest of the SOF team had moved to another position due to enemy fire. Chief Slabrinski made the only call he could under the circumstances.
…………...I read most of what must have been ten pages about this battle.
I think it’s pretty clear that both Chapman and Slabinski deserved recognition for their unbelievable bravery.
I also think the Air Force got it’s panties in a wad because of not receiving a MOH since Vietnam.
I also believe Slab when he said he believed Chapman was dead.
Slab had living Americans to immediately focus on and had to make a quick decision. Maybe he was wrong, but he (and Chapman) still deserve the MOH.
For Later
That’s Navy SEALs, Newsweak...Capital letters...
“No man left behind.....”
Guess that doesn’t mean much
I really believe everything hat Newsweek prints.
BS BY THE BUCKET.
It is almost always at the higher levels and it gets pretty childish/ridiculous. I served for a while at the Pentagon so I saw many examples.
There should have been absolutely no reason at all for the Navy to oppose Sgt Chapman's recommendation for the Medal of Honor, given the evidence of his immense heroism on that mountain.
The Air Force, his family, and our country should be very, very proud to have raised men like him.
I rubbed elbows with some Combat Com guys when I was in the AF. Gungho patriots every one!
Inter-service bickering got in the way. I don’t believe for a second that Chapman was purposely left behind.
Inter-service bickering got in the way. I don’t believe for a second that Chapman was purposely left behind.