Marine to be awarded MOH
Dakota Meyer has been notified by the President that he will be the third living recipient of the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War according to the Marine Corps Times;
Meyer, who left active-duty service in June 2010 as a corporal, will be honored for his actions Sept. 8, 2009. He charged into a kill zone on foot and alone to find three missing Marines and a Navy corpsman, who had been pinned down under intense enemy fire in Ganjgal, a remote village near the Pakistan border in violent Kunar province.
Already wounded by shrapnel, Meyer found them dead and stripped of their gear and weapons, and helped carry them from the kill zone, according to military documents obtained by Marine Corps Times.
Meyer — who now lives in Austin, Texas — could not immediately be reached for comment Tuesday night. In interviews with Marine Corps Times in November, he said he felt “like the furthest thing from a hero” because he did not find his fellow Marines alive.
“Whatever comes out of it, it’s for those guys,” he said at the time. “I feel like I let my guys down because I didn’t bring them home alive.”
Category: Military issues
Damn fine job Marine!
Best damned military force on the Planet.
The guy’s story is unbelievable. Just read Bing West description of it in “In the Wrong War”. If he didn’t get it then no one should.
Yeah, I read that last night online. It’s available through Leatherneck magazine. Guy’s a stud…
Too little too late. What is the civilian going to do, update his shadow box? Stimulate the economy with his 1,189 dollar stipend?
These awards need to be identified sooner and pushed with greater urgency. The country is so proud of his actions that the military couldn’t figure out what was award worthy until after he got out. Awesome.
One would think that after 10 years of constant combat operations, that the military chain of command could have streamlined the award process.
Now how about some jail time for the senior officers who denied air and IDF support for the ambushed transition team?
If you read the Bing West piece, it said they were reprimanded or some such (don’t remember specifically).
it seems like there’s a slew of MOH awardees since Obama got in office. 3 live awardees since Vietnam all announced (and to be awarded) inside of a year? I think they need to to go back and look at some of the older medals and see if they need to be upgraded.
Here’s the link: http://www.leatherneckmagazine-digital.com/leatherneckmagazine/201104/?pg=33&pm=2&u1=friend#pg33