[CholeraJoe]

I don't know what the threshold is for "medical attention," but I think it's probably something more than tweezers and band-aids for splinters suffered during combat.

The standard is just that - medical attention for wounds. Having a tiny piece of shrapnel pulled out of your leg by a medic and heading back to the front gets a PH just as much as having a leg blown off. I knew plenty of combat vets who took minor shrapnel wounds, bandaged themselves, kept fighting and never put in for a PH.

[mewzilla]

So how does someone get put in for a Purple Heart? Can they put in themselves for one, or does someone else, say a witness or a doctor, have to do it for them?