Sgt Dakota Meyer

[Dino0311]

Originally Posted by Ronin 762

Yes there is embellishment in some awards... I have seen Valor awards given for rediculous things like, shooting a tank with an M16, Assaulting an empty building, and Shooting at your own Marine's positions. I have also seen fine men do amazing things that should have merited an award, but they recieved little or no recognition, because of fk-ups later in the tour, or the awards "quotas" were used up.

One of my buddies was mentioned as being put in for a bronze star for jumping into a trench and smoking a bunch of Iraqi soldiers. It never went anywhere. But the BC got a bronze star for, I shit you not, calling in an airstrike.

[facetiousbadger]

Originally Posted by Massgrunt

One of my buddies was mentioned as being put in for a bronze star for jumping into a trench and smoking a bunch of Iraqi soldiers. It never went anywhere. But the BC got a bronze star for, I shit you not, calling in an airstrike.

That reminds me of the NAM process. It was supposedly for any and all meritorious action, but we mysteriously had preset quotas for total amount that we be awarded, and sometimes on how many nominations we could send up. The Chaplain's Assistant got one for a bunch of reasons that could have been summed up as, "Showed up to work, and was really nice to the Chaplain." since several units didn't send in nominations due to the deployment optempo.