A JAG officer gets a bronze star by deploying to Fallujah with Seal Team 1. And you won’t get the details because it was Specops and none of our business. I was an Intel officer and I have a medal where the write-up just says “classified operations.” A bunch of glowing verbiage, but absolutely no detail. Same reason.
When they use the term “throw the book at him” in court, they’re not talking about launching a copy of the UCMJ at the enemy.