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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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8 comments:
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Juice said...
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Hmmmm.... The John Effing Kerry medal?
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5/13/08, 3:11 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Similarly, the Navy will give sailors who passed their swimming test the Ted Kennedy/Mary Jo medal....
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5/13/08, 6:07 PM
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Billll said...
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The pink medal is perfect, but should have Kerry's profile on it. Given to those who imagine they've been psychically injured.
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5/13/08, 6:18 PM
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Anonymous said...
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"Hey dad"?
"Yes, son".
"Why did you get a Purple Heart for,where you wounded during the War"?
"Well,yes son. But on the inside."
For the love of Pete, buck up and have some pride folks. At minimum get a flesh wound or something. -
5/13/08, 7:13 PM
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Anonymous said...
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I have nothing to say but, "This ain't the military I joined."
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5/13/08, 8:19 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Since ~1970, the US military has thought up more REMF awards than I can keep track of: Medal of Merit for valorous meeting going, Defense Distinguished Ticket Punching Medal, Bronze Staff Member Medal, Eating Well in NATO service ribbon, Bronze Star for leaning out of a helicopter to see what's happening on the ground and on and on. Kinda like board members giving each other bonuses. Meanwhile, some grunt who walked on water under fire has to have a hundred witnesses and a hundred weeks of review to get a commendation medal with a 'V' device.
I got constipated in basic; can I get a medal retroactively?
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick -
5/13/08, 11:29 PM
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Chuck said...
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Blame body armor and IEDs.
Careful here folks...
Traumatic brain injury IS a real injury. It comes from being too close to large pressure waves--the kind generated when an something blows up close enough to you to "ring your bell." Enough of these pressure waves over time actually damage the brain, and if strong enough,can damage the brain on the first one.
Some common disabilities from TBI include problems with cognition (thinking, memory, and reasoning), sensory processing (sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell), communication (expression and understanding), and behavior or mental health (depression, anxiety, personality changes, aggression, acting out, and social inappropriateness). More serious head injuries may result in stupor, an unresponsive state, but one in which an individual can be aroused briefly by a strong stimulus, such as sharp pain; coma, a state in which an individual is totally unconscious, unresponsive, unaware, and unarousable; vegetative state, in which an individual is unconscious and unaware of his or her surroundings, but continues to have a sleep-wake cycle and periods of alertness; and a persistent vegetative state (PVS), in which an individual stays in a vegetative state for more than a month.
Still think it doesn't warrant a purple heart, but a piece of shrapnel in the finger does?
TBI is one of the most prevalent injuries suffered in our fighting forces, because we so often end up in such close proximity to things going boom. Thanks to armored vehicles, kevlar, and body armor, *most* explosions don't cause any casualties, but the pressure wave passes through the vehicles, and whatever is in them.
It's an injury caused by direct enemy contact. Why shouldn't it receive the same recognition as a bullet wound?
--Chuck -
5/14/08, 10:16 AM
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Anonymous said...
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TBI is a wound, Chuck, no argument there. I know a guy who got wacked on the back of his head by an IED pressure wave without breaking his skull, but lost enough of his vision to be medically discharged and another who lost a chunk of his skull the size of his hand when an IED blast slammed the gunner's hatch on his head who has fully recovered, has a skull prosthesis and is giving 'em hell on active duty at Ft. Sam Houston. Both received a PH, and damn sure deserved it. I am a little leary of giving a PH to someone who was never subject to blast nor struck by bullet but claims that he can't sleep because he went to Iraq.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick -
5/14/08, 10:45 PM
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