US awards drone attackers with medals

[clearvision]

World Bulletin:

Pentagon on Wednesday created a new medal drone attack pilots and cyber experts who are reshaping the battlefield, even from thousands of miles away.

 

Outgoing Defense Secretary and former CIA Director Leon Panetta - who spent much of the past four years bolstering those new capabilities - announced the decision to create the "Distinguished Warfare Medal" at a Pentagon news conference.

 

It is the ninth-highest warfare medal the Pentagon can bestow on troops - even higher than the Bronze Star. Importantly, it is the only combat medal that a military service member can receive without actually physically being in the same geographic area where combat took place.

[Valin]

World Bulletin:

Pentagon on Wednesday created a new medal drone attack pilots and cyber experts who are reshaping the battlefield, even from thousands of miles away.

 

 

A. Good!

B. Welcome to the XXIst century

[Pepper]

@clearvision

 

Some of the people awarding these medals were undoubtedly among those who during Vietnam bitched that anyone bombing from 40,000 was a coward.

 

 

See a reaction today towards this:

Jet Jockeys and Drone Drivers; Cowardly Killers of the 21st Century

http://newsle.com/article/0/50100658/

 

by Tim King

http://www.islammattersnow.com/islammattersnow.com/Tim_King_SalemNews.html

[Valin]

@clearvision

 

Some of the people awarding these medals were undoubtedly among those who during Vietnam bitched that anyone bombing from 40,000 was a coward.

 

 

See a reaction today towards this:

Jet Jockeys and Drone Drivers; Cowardly Killers of the 21st Century

http://newsle.com/article/0/50100658/

 

by Tim King

http://www.islammattersnow.com/islammattersnow.com/Tim_King_SalemNews.html

 

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Do you think it ever occurs to fighter pilots that they are playing God with human lives?

 

 

Yes...at least the ones I've known.

 

 

 

One wonders what Tim King thinks (assuming he actually Thinks) of this

Courtesy of the 8th Air Force urban renewal project.

[Draggingtree]

@clearvision

 

Some of the people awarding these medals were undoubtedly among those who during Vietnam bitched that anyone bombing from 40,000 was a coward.

 

 

See a reaction today towards this:

Jet Jockeys and Drone Drivers; Cowardly Killers of the 21st Century

http://newsle.com/article/0/50100658/

 

by Tim King

http://www.islammatt..._SalemNews.html

 

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Do you think it ever occurs to fighter pilots that they are playing God with human lives?

 

 

Yes...at least the ones I've known.

 

 

 

One wonders what Tim King thinks (assuming he actually Thinks) of this

Courtesy of the 8th Air Force urban renewal project.

When I was over in Germany in the late fiftys I saw small county towns that were just like the picture above, and they were empty of people.

[Valin]

 

 

 

One wonders what Tim King thinks (assuming he actually Thinks) of this

Courtesy of the 8th Air Force urban renewal project.

When I was over in Germany in the late fiftys I saw small county towns that were just like the picture above, and they were empty of people.

 

 

I am reminded of something Arthur Harris said when he took over Bomber Command..."The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind."

[Draggingtree]

Only in Obama’s world:

A medal for keyboard heroes

Judi McLeod (Bio and Archives) Friday, February 15, 2013

President Barack Hussein Obama is not gutting the U.S. military, he’s working at making it irrelevant.

In public Obama professes an admiration for US troops, bestowing medals of bravery on them in media-blitzed photo ops. Wife Michelle plays a role in the public display carried by media propaganda that crows “The Obamas love the US military”.

But behind the scenes, Obama, the Artful Dodger of Modern Times, lobs bombs at the US military without running the risk he’ll ever be caught tossing.

In an era where volunteer soldiers are sent into an arena where the enemy is better protected than them by a government who doesn’t believe in them; in which returning veterans are DHS-categorized as terrorists and where media portrayals depict a majority of soldiers as victims of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), the Pentagon is creating a medal awarded to newly-morphed troops—faceless drone strike launchers sitting safe from all harm behind computer screens.

“Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced Wednesday that for the first time the Pentagon is creating a medal that can be awarded to troops who have a direct impact on combat operations, but do it from afar.” (NBC News, Feb. 13, 2013).

In other words, medals for the conveniently safe with no skin in the game.

http://www.canadafre...p/article/53151

[Valin]

Recognizing our drone warriors

Marc Thiessen

February 20, 2013

 

While the drone campaign is under attack on Capitol Hill, the Pentagon is taking action to recognize the achievements of our nation’s drone warriors.

 

These men and women have carried out some of the most important strikes in (what used to be called) the war on terror — taking out senior al Qaeda leaders and disrupting plots to strike the American homeland. Many of these strikes are carried out not from the battlefield, but from trailers in US military and intelligence facilities here at home. Problem is, if you’re not in a combat zone you’re not eligible for combat decorations.

 

Now the Washington Post reports that is about to change:

 

 

(Snip)

 

Predictably, some are scoffing at the new award. The Washington Times reports:

 

 

(Snip)

 

It is hard to see how it is an injustice to those who served and risked their lives to recognize the important military achievements of those who serve in other ways.

[Valin]

I've got some real bad news for those complaining about this.

 

 

Anyone who is a combat pilot...the sun is setting.