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Sunday, November 18, 2012

How Petraeus Got A Bronze Star For Combat Valor

The most that has been publicly documented about Petraeus in real, actual combat is a mortar shell that landed near him in Iraq in 2003.
Yet he came away from the conflict with a Bronze Star for Combat Valor.
It's not uncommon to see a valor award on an upper level military officer, but a lot of those were earned in their days at lieutenants or, for former enlisted Mustang officers, their time as low-ranking 'straight-leg' grunts.
One Army Colonel, recently interviewed for an article in Time Magazine, described Patraeus as "a remarkable piece of fiction."

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

When I see the amount of metals worn by Patraeus it reminds me of the old war horses and cold war generals of the Kremlin. Are there any metals he doesn't have?

Appears that he has at least one of each.