Obama’s Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service
According to Breitbart, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter awarded the president the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service;
Secretary Carter awarded his boss with the medal on January 4 during the Armed Forces Full Honor Farewell Review for the President held at Conmy Hall, Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Virginia.
Carter insisted that the medal was a token of appreciation for Obama’s service as commander in chief, the Associated Press reported.
Before anyone goes off into hyper-space ranting about this award, according to Wiki, Obama’s predecessors have also been awarded the medal.
Ashton Carter has been awarded the medal. So, I guess it’s really no big deal – like the Nobel Prize.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden
Poor Wide Load. She’s never gonna get her one of them thar fancy medals. The body language on her in that pic is interesting. Please print.
Yeah, her posture in that Chairman Mao knockoff pantsuit says it all!
Actually she has already received this award for her service as SecState.
She had to get in the picture you notice though. I don’t see Michelle Obama or Laura Bush in those other pictures.
Yeah, but he will never get the coveted Precious Metals Recovery Expert Badge.
He won’t get the Paper/Cardboard Recycling Award, either. Ir the ‘End Styrofoam Cups Usage’ achievement ribbon.
OR the Road Litter Elimination Badge!
OR the distinguished golf game award, even the freaks golf game SUCKS!!
Participation trophy?
Another award made utterly worthless….
His predecessors may have gotten it, but Bill Clinton did not receive it while in office. Note the fine young man in ASUs behind him.
Anyone know the man who’s presenting Slick Willy with the medal? Can’t recognize him.
William Cohen. He was SecDef during Clinton Administration replaced by Rumsfeld. Those uniforms have been around for years before they were called ASUs.
Hmm. Well don’t I look the inexperienced dope now…
Bingo. Today’s ASU is merely a slightly-updated version of the Army’s old Dress Blues. Been around since at least the 1970s, and I’m pretty sure it had existed effectively unchanged for a few decades before that.
Yeah, they used to wear that in the horse cavalry, only they wore riding boots with the pants.
Here you go: the 11th Cavalry, 1937. If you scroll down the page, you might see someone you remember.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gregkrenzelok/veterinary%20corp%20in%20ww1/11thcapresidiomonterey1938.html
That’s pretty cool. Love the composition/pose/uniform.
Who knew?!
Kind of explains the westerns he was in, doesn’t it?
Yep a variant of the ASU has been around since the Civil War.
Ulysses S. Grant wears the predecessor to the blue service uniform.
GEN Robert Eichelberger in the early 1940’s.
Holy Fuke, talk about deep in the Boss’ ass. They could probably mistake Carters eyes for Obama nuts he is so far in there.
Writing YOUR BOSS an Award.
Puke Factor 4.
So, it’s like the Army Service Ribbon? Just manage to last through your term and you get one?
Nobel prize, second award still pending S1 review?
“Everybody gets a prize!”
Works for the carnival barkers, doesn’t it?
meh
Pardon me for going off topic. F-16.net has the results of the investigation of the Thunderbird crash after the AFA graduation—stuck throttle see http://www.f-16.net/f-16-news-article5040.html.
Sounds like a maintenance issue.
What is bothersome is the bit about conflicting directions in the maintenance manuals.
Here is another source that discusses the crash from an insider perspective. Also, having changed those throttles before personally, I’m not buying the maintenance issue. Especially when there are stories coming out about how one of the other jets flamed out just after landing from fuel starvation.
https://www.jqpublicblog.com/air-force-releases-thunderbird-crash-report-whitewashes-obamas-role/
So, Presidential NDSM?
My thoughts exactly.
What I find interesting here is the beginning of the apparent “tradition” of the outgoing SECDEF presenting the award to the outgoing POTUS.
The award has been around since 1947. However, omitted from Wikipedia’s list of “notable recipients” are individuals named Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush.
This “tradition” apparently started under the Clintoon regime. Just another “fine thing” for which we can thank BJ Willie, I guess.
You mean Willie liked all sorts of shiny things to boost his ego?
This is my shocked face.
Not.
Giving an award to your own boss is just so gay. Apple polishing, boot-licking, brown-nosing are all terms that spring to mind. W should have declined the award when it was offered to him, and broken this “tradition” before it really got started. Now, unfortunately, it seems like it’s here to stay.
Kennedy said he needed another award like he needed a hole in the head. Too soon?
Talk about a dutch rudder. They should have held a mutual pinning ceremony. There will be no ‘aw, shucks, I wish him well’ or any of the bullshit that accompanies oBaMa’s departure from our White House, not from me. I just want the SOB, his cabinet and that moron Joe “Shotgun” Biden gone. Phukers every one.
I agree.
I’m afraid that their buddy Holder is a template of what we will see from this crime family in the future, though.
I’d love to air-drop the whole group over the ‘Stan.
Sans parachutes.
Nah, let his buddy Hillary take charge of packing the parachutes. Poetic justice.
Still tryin to figure out what Steven Spielberg did to rate one.
Saving Private Ryan.
In his defense, Private Ryan did need saving.
Hey you all, just remember one thing! Obama killed Bin Laden….
Its like the Air Force Order of the Sword typically presented to the outgoing CSAF, or the Distinguished Service Medal. I think WEB Griffin described it as the six month clap free medal for GO/FO
I see the man-child still has his nose firmly planted in the air….
OF COURSE his nose is in the air whenever he’s not bowing to a Foreign Head of State like the Saudi King, the Japanese Emperor, the Chinese President,…
First Dog Bo must have been at the ceremony, cause that’s the JEF’s “Bo, did you just fart?” look.
Yeah, I noticed that, too. Imperious and arrogant to the end.
I FARTLUTED HIM upon seeing this.
The “Dutch Rudder” comment just about killed me.
“I am still commander-in-chief and so I get to do what I want to do, and I want to thank you.” And therein lies the heart of the matter. For the past nearly eight years, he has acted as if he had no constraints, that the Constitution contains suggestions, that with his pen and phone, he could damn well do what he wants when he wants. Phuker. Also, during his little speech yesterday, he used a Larsfact. (For those who don’t know, a Larsfact is an assertion of fact that is devoid of supporting evidence.) oBaMa’s Larsfact was this: “Joe Biden and I know that women are as least as strong as men.” I can easily understand Joe the Moron saying that but, I must admit, I am amazed that oBaMa did.
Why are you surprised 2/17, between the JEF and Moochelle, who do you think is stronger? lol
Yeah, but Moochelle has a johnson!
A strap on one that is called “the Thrillhammer”….
I heard she called it, “Thundaar The Disciplinarian!”
For some reason I did by get one.
1–fuck over veterans.
2–shit on AD/reserves/Guard
3–????
4–Profit!
(3) would be the VA…
So basically it’s the DoD version of the Air Force’s Order of the Sword, and the POTUS takes the place of the CSAF in that each one is inducted regardless of their accomplishments (or lack thereof)…
“Presidential Participation Medal,” eh?
Seems like it…a rose by any other name and all of that.
Only 1 out of 3 of them ever served. And a separate 1 out of the 3 should be getting a “dishonorable discharge” in about two weeks!
Mutual Admiration Society
Maybe Obummer has accumulated enough awards to have a shadow box made. You know, all the awards he received for outstanding service to country. /s
Then he’ll have to get a vest, buy patches, etc.
It’ll never end….
He’s already got a bike (bicycle). He can borrow Kerry’s cute pink one.
Ring-ring. Ring-ring.
It seems to me that this is merely the POTUS version of a PCS/ETS award that all of us (most of us, at least) got when we PCSed/ETSed. The higher the rank, the higher the award. An E5 will rate something like an ARCOM, vs an E8 or E9 will rate a MSG or LOM. There’s a lot of much better things to get worked up about.
MSM or LOM***
Autocorrect got me before I caught it.
American Thinker has an interesting pic of all the empty seats in the bleachers. Looks like a Hillary campaign event…
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/01/obama_grotesquely_had_himself_awarded_a_defense_dept_medal_yesterday.html
There would have been more troops in the bleachers, but a majority them had to go to Medical for mandatory screening to see if they are eligible for sex reassignment.
“And when I applaud, everybody will applaud. When I laugh, everyone will laugh. Watch…me… faggots!” (Blazing Saddles, Dom Deluise)
As long as they are handing out awards, can one of them check the desk drawer for that End Of Tour Navy Commendation that I was supposed to get when I left Okinawa? I’ve been waiting 16 1/2 years, and if I don’t get it soon, I may have to make a phone call.
Hack: I was stationed at Hansen. I saw your Navy Commendation award in the shitcan. Sorry.
My brother still bitches about his Navy Achievement from Futemna in 1984. He was in the friggin’ Wing, living life in an air conditioned barracks when I was sweating my ass off in an open squad Bay on Camp Schwab. He was always Mom’s favorite.
They should have a Navy Corpseman present him the award while a Marine held an umbrella over his head.
Wish someone had given him one years ago.
It won’t be long before all our top “public servants” in both parties, military and civilian, look like this;
http://i.imgur.com/M0nSFzI.png
I think I should be awarded a medal for tolerating his ‘leadership’ for 8 years.
I was thinking something similar, that everyone who voted for Trump and thereby denied the Bitch of Benghazi the presidency ought to receive a Distinguished Public Service award. Obama, when campaigning for Wide Load, said he would take it as a personal insult if Blacks did not turn out to vote for her. That racist nature of that appeal aside, it pleases me that he was insulted. He has been insulting the best part of America for eight long years.
Why the fuck does Obummer get one? He has been an absolute dick to the DoD during his tenure.
See, all the reasons you’re banned in one comment. Grow up.
Who’s that “Mark L” turd, a disciple of UC Berserkely or the Dutch Rudder Gang?
What a horse’s ass. No, make that a horse’s asshole. Phuk Mark L.
Almost forgot about this fine specimen of a prick, Markie-Mark Loooooser….
Guess it’s to be expected, but Sweet Holy Mother Fucker! They gave this to a muzzie!!
Who the hell is Mark L?
Is he in the stolen valor hall of fame?
Someone should Make up another of those Loyal Order of the Blue Falcon Awards and send it to him.
Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service or not, he is still a cocksucker.
By the way, Mark L. is a cocksucker too.
Now BHO can parade around with some stolen valor of his own.
He is going to look like a Nork General soon.
I dub thee Kim Bha Rhee