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    The Guys at the Console: A New Medal for Sitting Around Killing Someone Thousands of Miles Away

    The Pentagon has created a new Distinguished Warfare Medal to be awarded to drone "pilots" who push a button in some building somewhere to kill a (often innocent) target many miles away, thus honoring what Leon Panetta called "the extraordinary actions that make a true difference in combat operations." In an Orwellian twist, the medal outranks the Bronze Star, which is given for heroic acts performed under fire by those who are, like, you know, actually there.
    -Abby Zimet

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    Re: Speechless on this one!

    One wonders how many of those making such suggesions, ever faced being under fire themselves ?

    Medals should only be given, for an heroic deed, taken to save others.

    Their crazy world has gone mad.

    Ranald
    Last edited by Ranald; 17 February 2013, 10:40.

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    • #3
      Re: Speechless on this one!

      The military has gone corporate. In corporations, button pushers always get ahead at the expense of those in the trenches.

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