Got a buddy who during the push to marjah (sp?) had a fellow Marine who got shot. His other buddy jumped from cover and grabbed that wounded Marine, dragging him to the berm they were behind and pushed him over. As he climbed over himself he was shot and killed.
They gave him a fucking NAM, posthumously. Handed it to his disgusted father. My buddy got a NAM for putting out an aircraft engine fire in garrison. Another female Marine got a NAM for training like 100 people to be plane captains. This guy sacrificed himself to save another Marine and got the same recognition, not the Cross he probably deserved. I’ve never heard a Marine from that unit say a nice thing about their CO, who also gave himself a Purple Heart because a piece of rock from a bullet hitting the wall hit his hand and gave him a booboo, in the same firefight where a 19 year old PFC got a Purple Heart for a fatal shot to the face. That CO got in the stack on the house these hajis were in (they were in a base and managed to escape and blockade themselves in a building on that base) and when that PFC went in, the CO didn’t follow. Sent him in alone.
Got a buddy who during the push to marjah (sp?) had a fellow Marine who got shot. His other buddy jumped from cover and grabbed that wounded Marine, dragging him to the berm they were behind and pushed him over. As he climbed over himself he was shot and killed.
They gave him a fucking NAM, posthumously. Handed it to his disgusted father. My buddy got a NAM for putting out an aircraft engine fire in garrison. Another female Marine got a NAM for training like 100 people to be plane captains. This guy sacrificed himself to save another Marine and got the same recognition, not the Cross he probably deserved. I’ve never heard a Marine from that unit say a nice thing about their CO, who also gave himself a Purple Heart because a piece of rock from a bullet hitting the wall hit his hand and gave him a booboo, in the same firefight where a 19 year old PFC got a Purple Heart for a fatal shot to the face. That CO got in the stack on the house these hajis were in (they were in a base and managed to escape and blockade themselves in a building on that base) and when that PFC went in, the CO didn’t follow. Sent him in alone.