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That's interesting. I served in the Air Force for 20 years, retired as a LtCol, participated in the Gulf War and I don't ever recall a case of someone being awarded a Bronze Star for bumping their head on their vehicle and jamming their gun. I have a cousin who fought in Vietnam who did get a Bronze Star for walking through a live minefield to retrieve one of his buddies who had stepped on one of the mines. Maybe they've changed the rules since I was in. Maybe they give Bronze Stars away like candy now. But I doubt it.

That's interesting. I served in the Air Force for 20 years, retired as a LtCol, participated in the Gulf War and I don't ever recall a case of someone being awarded a Bronze Star for bumping their head on their vehicle and jamming their gun.

How about for not yielding under torture? Or do you think that all hospital beds have car batteries next to them?

Air Force for 20 years, retired as a LtCol...

The Air Force stopped giving away awards like candy, they just created a whole pile of their own unique awards for such things like professional advancement (getting promoted earns you a medal now in the USAF).

That's interesting. I served in the Air Force for 20 years, retired as a LtCol, participated in the Gulf War and I don't ever recall a case of someone being awarded a Bronze Star for bumping their head on their vehicle and jamming their gun. I have a cousin who fought in Vietnam who did get a Bronze Star for walking through a live minefield to retrieve one of his buddies who had stepped on one of the mines. Maybe they've changed the rules since I was in. Maybe they give Bronze Stars away like candy now. But I doubt it.

All I can say is read the other posts on this thread. There are those that have them that don't have a problem with Jessica and hers.

That's interesting. I served in the Air Force for 20 years, retired as a LtCol, participated in the Gulf War and I don't ever recall a case of someone being awarded a Bronze Star for bumping their head on their vehicle and jamming their gun.

You'd better check back with the AF. Looks like they're giving them out for a lot less than that.

Air Force to award 61 more Bronze Stars

The review, he said, was part of the normal awards process designed primarily to insure individuals don’t receive two awards for the same thing and check for other forms of duplication or clerical error.

The latest batch are the result of an awards board that met in March, Balken said.

Of the new awards, four Bronze Stars are slated to go to personnel who worked in the Pentagon. They were involved in the Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle flights over Yugoslavia, according to information provided by Air Force spokesman Maj. Jon K. Anderson.

Another Bronze Star would go to an airman who was based at Wright-Paterson Air Force Base in Ohio during the airstrikes. Others also would go to personnel in Missouri, bringing the total there to 12.

If all of the new awards clear the final administrative hurdle — and they are expected to — the total number of Bronze Stars awarded by the Air Force for the airstrikes would be 246.

Of those, only 16 —or 6 percent —actually served in what was officially designated the combat zone during the war, according to Air Force figures.

With the latest additions, enlisted troops continued to receive few of the awards, with 196 out of the 256 Bronze Stars going to officers.

Heck, at least Lynch was IN a combat zone.

the lastest and perhaps the most accurate story is that almost all of Lynch's injuries were suffered from a terrible beating she took....

she took the beating and survived and I certainly didn't see her doing propoganda for Iraqi Tv.....