[honway]

wearing the same ribbon that you recieved if they were far from the AO?

There you go again.
There was never any question from anywhere including the Clinton(I loathe the military)Administration about Boorda's ribbons.

The falsehood that originated out of the Clinton Administration and was propagated by Hackworth was that Boorda was not entitled to wear a "V" device on a ribbon he certainly earned.

I believe Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr and I know every man that served on a combat ship conducting combat operations against a nation we were at war with earned the "V" device.

[sneakypete]

I know every man that served on a combat ship conducting combat operations against a nation we were at war with earned the "V" device.

That right there proves you are full of crap! Floating around off-shore in air-conditioned comfort miles away from any Vietnames at all,never mind armed ones shooting at you,and you think THAT qualifies somebody for a VALOR award? No wonder you support Boodra! Just try to sell that crap to a USMC grunt or Army infantryman and see how far you get with it!

[Fred Mertz]

I watched Hackworth on 60 minutes selling his woof tickets: the US military is ill prepared for combat in an NBC environment.

D'oh! It's been that way for decades. Although I will say that the individual soldiers are trained to don their 'gas masks' in X seconds...and they do that which they are trained for.