Medal of Honor recipient recalls deadly ambush. Unlike the usual fare of miscreants, we have someone to be proud of for a change. Everyone should watch the interview with a real American hero. Medal of Honor recipient Sgt. Dakota Meyer, USMC. We at IHTM salute you sir!
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This Marine has my total respect. I only wished he would have requested that the highest ranking military officer award him the MOH. Not some socialist/marxist POS.
It is truly a shame that a POS like obummer is the guy who pinned the medal on him. It seemed to 'cheapen' the honor smewhat.
That is very awesome. Men like this inspire me greatly.
Damn you CO2, this video brings back too many old memories and I don't know if I should cuss you or love you for it.
When did the idiots running our military decide that all you needed to be an officer was a college degree? Schooling does not make you a man, a soldier or sailor, only your raising and experience in life can do that. Many of us saw this same kind of crap almost 40 years ago, in our last never ending "war" and it still pisses me off.
The analogy I use when fools tell me that a better educated person makes a better officer is this: John Kennedy was a college boy but he proved he could lead men after his PT boat was shot out of the water. John Kerry got a medal for getting a little scratch on his ass. Who is the better leader? You tell me.
The fools sitting on their fat butts, far from the action, should not only be drummed out of the service, they should spend a few years in Leavenworth for murder. The deaths of their fellow soldiers may have been prevented, not garenteed but maybe, if they had acted like a soldier instead of a college boy.
While I am ranting here who were the pilots of the choppers that turned away from their fellow soldiers when they were so close? If it were me in charge they would be gone. Just because they didn't have "orders" they abandonded their countrymen, probably causing their death? These sissies never heard of having "radio trouble, I can't hear you", so I am going in? These pussies would not have made it a month in Korea or 'Nam, they would have been transfered to safer duties, like hauling sailors to the beach for a little R&R.
Enough raging tonight. I am proud of Sgt. Meyer, he is what our military men and women is all about. Pride in self, dedication to duty, dedication to comrades in harms way.
Whiskey, I hear you. I will say this though while a college degree in no way guarantees success as a military officer or anything else, the training to become an officer is supposed to dramatically increase a new lieutenant's chance of success. I am a 1985 OCS grad and after I was commissioned I went on to the Basic Course and a whole lot more schools. So did every other new officer. I think it is a standard bell curve. There are 20% who are great, 60% who are average, and 20% who are horrible. The terrible thing about war is that when the poor officers make mistakes or are too concerned with "getting their ticket punched" soldiers die. I am willing to bet that the ambush and the response to it will become subject matter at the USMA, USNA and the various infantry schools. Hopefully, the next generation of leaders learn from this and understand that taking the initiative is what a good officer (and NCO) is supposed to do.
I saw this on 60 Minutes. Very humble and brave man. I was unaware of the indirect fire and aviation support issues. The interviewer didn't go into it but it sounded like rules of engagement issues were partly to blame for the prolonged intensity of the ground fighting.
It was the idiots at HQ. That was brought up. One Army Captain was calling for air support numerous times and they kept blowing him off.
Too close to the village was one excuse offered. That sounds like ROE.