Posted on 07/25/2024 3:21:00 PM PDT by DFG
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III has directed the Defense Department to review the Medals of Honor awarded to approximately 20 soldiers for their actions during the December 1890 engagement at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota, to ensure no awardees were recognized for conduct inconsistent with the nation's highest military honor.
DOD's Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness will convene a special review panel to conduct an individualized assessment based on standards in effect during that period.
The scope of the panel's review is limited to examining each Medal of Honor awardee' s individual actions during the engagement at Wounded Knee Creek. However, "The [special review panel] may consider the context of the overall engagement as appropriate, including as necessary to understand each [Wounded Knee Creek Medal of Honor] recipient's individual actions," Austin wrote in a memorandum directing the review, which was released today.
Austin signed the memorandum last week following department consultation with the White House and Department of the Interior.
"It's never too late to do what's right," a senior defense official said in an interview this week. "And that's what is intended by the review that the secretary directed, which is to ensure that we go back and review each of these medals in a rigorous and individualized manner to understand the actions of the individual in the context of the overall engagement."
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Somebody needs to check Austin’s medals.
Rewriting history in real time.
What a moron
Divide.
And conquer.
While they are at it, check all the medals given to the “buffalo soldiers”. Believe it or not, they killed Indians too.
Next they’re going to reach back and remove the General of the Armies title from George Washington because racism or something.
While we’re at it, why don’t we burn the American flag at Union Station in Washington, D.C.? Oh they did that yesterday? Well, we can check that off the list.
He was a slave owner. Of course, we've forgotten that we fought a civil war over slavery.
One of the most pathetically ignorant things this woke dumbass has come up with.
Not only is he destroying our current militry, but, now, he’s attacking our military heritage.
The man should be fired, immediately.
Do you know who killed more Indians than general Custer?
Union Carbide
FWIW, 20 Medals of Honor at Wounded Knee does seem a bit over the top. I’m comparing it in my mind to the Victoria Crosses awarded at Rorke’s Drift.
It is good to know that our military has so little to worry about that it has the time to delve into awards given well over a century ago. Will Austin require the descendants to return the medals?
“The black man” with no name, according to Biden.
Austin. The guy whose name Biden never remembers, so is “the black man”.
Complete A-hole. A lot of mythology about Wounded Knee. It was in 1890. 7th Cavalry was returning armed Sioux back to the reservation after the Ghost Dance movement and it’s resurgent mentality.
As those soldiers stood there freezing and tired after a hard pursuit and march in the snow... they were VERY much on edge for any resistance.
For a minute put yourself in the shoes of some US Army unit today, freezing and standing guard over a bunch of armed Taliban. Imagine that in 2010 your same unit was completely wiped out by the Taliban. If firing starts it’s going to go cyclic. That’s just how it is. And 31 soldiers were killed and 33 wounded.
Fat azz Austin is unfit to shine the shoes of the 7th Cav.
Doesn’t he have more important work to do? I guess not. God help us.
Looks like these guys really have the concerns of the voters in mind here...LOL
Stabbing current military folks in the back is not good enough for him—he needs to betray dead ones.
I have always believed that the end game is to abolish the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution because both were written, signed, and approved by white, slave owners.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, or as Joe Biden calls him “the black man”……
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