Monday, August 30, 2004
Another Medal Controversy
The rabid hyenas at Democratic Underground are all in a tizzy over whether Dubya was photographed wearing a medal he did not earn.
I don't think there's any there there. The medal in question, the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, is simply worn as a matter of course by all members of the unit for as long as they are in that unit. In practice, there would be no reason to annotate it on a form AF11. You would only have to take it off when he transferred. Multiply that by several hundred people constantly transferring in and out, and updating AF11 with temporary unit awards would turn out to be a major clerical task.
Fat chance.
As long as he was a member of that unit, no one would have reason to question the award. So there would be no reason to update the AF11 with it. Nor would it go on a DD214. Heck, half the time the DD214 doesn't even reflect medals a servicemember actually DID earn. Mine STILL doesn't have the Basic Parachutist's Badge (I graduated from Airborne School on August 17th, I think, 1991)!
Just for the sake of argument, though...if a servicemember were to wear an unauthorized decoration, why the hell would anyone in his right mind choose a unit award????
The Marksmanship badge should probably have been noted on a form, though, or written up somewhere in the form of an order. BUT, if the badge is temporary, and Bush didn't requalify expert later, he probably would lose the right to wear the small arms expert ribbon. And the AF11 would be updated to reflect that fact.
But the fact that even some of the Democratic Underground wingnuts are sceptical ought to belie the nothingness of the claim.
Splash, out
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I don't think there's any there there. The medal in question, the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, is simply worn as a matter of course by all members of the unit for as long as they are in that unit. In practice, there would be no reason to annotate it on a form AF11. You would only have to take it off when he transferred. Multiply that by several hundred people constantly transferring in and out, and updating AF11 with temporary unit awards would turn out to be a major clerical task.
Fat chance.
As long as he was a member of that unit, no one would have reason to question the award. So there would be no reason to update the AF11 with it. Nor would it go on a DD214. Heck, half the time the DD214 doesn't even reflect medals a servicemember actually DID earn. Mine STILL doesn't have the Basic Parachutist's Badge (I graduated from Airborne School on August 17th, I think, 1991)!
Just for the sake of argument, though...if a servicemember were to wear an unauthorized decoration, why the hell would anyone in his right mind choose a unit award????
The Marksmanship badge should probably have been noted on a form, though, or written up somewhere in the form of an order. BUT, if the badge is temporary, and Bush didn't requalify expert later, he probably would lose the right to wear the small arms expert ribbon. And the AF11 would be updated to reflect that fact.
But the fact that even some of the Democratic Underground wingnuts are sceptical ought to belie the nothingness of the claim.
Splash, out
Jason
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ps jason I am the one that keeps responding to your lies and CRAP- and you know jason, I refuse to quit. I hate your lies and mistellings so much that I am making it my personal preoject to attack everything that you say - so have fun if you want to remove it all - otherwisw welcome and KISS MY ASS
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