(Kevin Brooks) wrote in message . com...
(M Power) wrote in message . com...
You're comparing apples to oranges. She got into a auto accident.

She wasn't driving, and the accident occured during an ambush (hardly
your run-of-the-mill fender bender).

Who cares who was driving? She was in an accident, just as I said.


She wasn't parachuting into a hostile zone and saving a downed pilot.

Those kind of activities usually garner more than a BS.

No,they typically do not. Once in a great while they garner a SS, but
only if they kill a few bad-guys first.


That's a horrible comparison. Soldiers should not get Bronze Stars
for wrecking their vehicles.

She didn't.

Yes, she did. She got a Purple heart for being injured. She got a
POW medal for being a POW. She didn't do anything else except survive
an auto accident and get a case of amnesia. Therefore, she must be
getting her BS for the latter events. Or, she might be getting it
simply because it's bad politics as I said before, but that *couldn't"
be the reason. They would never hand out an award for reasons as bad
as that sigh of sarcasm.


There needs to be more to it than that.

There was.

No, there was not.


She was a POW and she was injured in war, therefore the POW Medal and
Purple Heart are deserved, but not the BS. Why is that so hard to
understand?

Because you are not making sense? She got the BS without a V (at least
that is the way it reads in the DoD press release); hundreds, if not
thousands, of other folks will also get the BS w/o V for even more
mundane activities. The BS without V is merely an award for
meritorious service not involving personal heroism during a period of
combat operations. It is really that simple.


You are the one that is not making sense. In the Bosnia/Kosovo
campaign, only 204 Army BS were handed out. Out of those, only 25
enlisted Army soldiers recieved one. The lowest rank being an E-8.
They only recieved these for holding extremely high levels of
responsibility, or for saving someone's life. Jessica Lynch did none
of these thngs. She got a BS for purely political reasons. She
doesn't deserve to wear it, and the BS has been watered down even more
by her receiving it. Yep, as you've said, it really is that simple.


Brooks



(B2431) wrote in message ...

Jessica Lynch did *nothing* to deserve her Bronze Star. She was
injured in a auto accident, and never fired a single round. She
deserves a Purple Heart and POW medal of course, but not a Bronze
Star, especially with a Combat "V". I have a Combat "V", and I had to
do a lot more than wreck my vehicle to get it. No, PFC Lynch didn't
do anything deserving of the BS at all. This is simple politics at
it's worst.


And just how many combat medics would you want to take combat awards away from
simply because they never fired a shot?

I will say, however, the media pay too much attention to her just as they did
with Scott Grady.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired