Soldier pulls other soldier out of burning truck..no medal

My friend told me today how disillusioned her son is over this "event".. It was a few months ago.. He was in the third truck back.. Truck #1 hit a mine, and burst into flames..

He and the guys from truck #2 got out and raced towards their fellow soldiers in the lead truck.. My friend's son pulled a guy out, rolled him to put the fire ON HIM out (burning his own hands in the process)..

They get the guys evacuated and nothing more is said about the "event" ..for a few weeks.. The person in charge comes to her son and asks him if he plans to re-enlist..(the burns on his hands were not serious).. He tells him NO WAY.. (the realization that he could actually get killed hit home that day..)(He's 26 with 2 little kids)...

He has already been "stop-lossed" twice.. He offhandedly asked about his "rescue" of the soldier in the fire, and if there's anything he needed to sign for the commendation he was told he was going to get..The person in charge, says.."There is no commendation due you." You did what was expected of you..that's all.."

He is now home, and she said he bristles at the very word Army or Iraq..

and he hates George Bush too :)

He did not want to appear to be whining..He said he "felt" that if he had said YES to the re-enlistment, the medal would have been his..

He only wanted it because he has a young son, and thought that someday he would tell him about how he saved a guy's life..and then give the son the medal..

He's come to terms with it, and he's elated to be OUT and back home ..but it made him feel a bit used and abused.:(

under the new Repuke rules, you have to BLEED, a LOT, to get a PH. Burns, no matter how severe, aren't a "real" war injury. (sarcasm off)

football player. And gotten killed by friendly fire.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR I HATE these people!!!!


Repukes new motto: "We have the guts to call cannon fodder, cannon fodder."

but his immediate superior said he was putting him in for a commendation for bravery in the rescue ..The guy was unconscious, and there was fuel all over the road...and there was fire everywhere..

He would have done it anyway,(they guy is his friend) but the fact that the "commendation" somehow was tied to the re-enlistment is what pissed him off..

I don't know about the requirements for different medals, but risking your own life to save that of another is definately deserving of something. The games these people are playing with the troops make me want to :nuke:

If they weren't under fire, I can't see how this wouldn't be expected of every serviceman.

:)

THe whole military thing in iraq is a disgrace, mostly as it
distracts from the true heros.... who are busting their ass making
another generation of civil human beings.

Ain't it all a bit twisted that the REAL heroes goe unnoticed.

If our military was being used properly, I think you might disagree with what you said, also.

But it isn't. It is criminal, this illegal invasion. That makes all
parties criminal, just like the people doing the driving for a bank
robbery.

The USA is not under any sovereign threat. The military should be
at home in the barracks with medals going to mothers, and poeple who
bust their asses paying taxes so that the country does not collapse
around our ears.

You're right. I'd disagree with what i said in a science fiction
movie where the country was doing ANYTHING even remotely related to
democracy or justice.

As it stands, single mothers who love their kids are the real heroes.

Military people who let themselves be involved in a crime are
accomplaces.

I am, however, at a loss to understand why he did not receive some kind of a medal for his heroic actions. :shrug:

who are still in the service.. One army..one Airforce..One is in Kuwait..the other in Turkey..

They had all hoped to make the service a career, and now the other two are counting down the days too ...

At least write a letter to the editor of her local paper? Or would that upset her son?
THREE sons.....god she must still be suffering daily along with the two still there. :(