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**artkolkovk** · 11-18-2011, 04:15 AM

I understand there are a lot of brave people doing out of the ordinary and going above and beyond what was reasonably expected of them every day - but such was the case in every war. I don't see awarding medals as some sort of competition - that we need to award just as many MOH as we did in WWII or Korea.

But as far as being unfairly generous with officers while turning a blind eye to enlisted people who did something equivalent - I know for a fact that happens, and I've seen it happen. But I don't believe any amount of legislation is going to fix that. An organization run by officers for officers is always going to be like that, and I can't think of any way to fix it.

Maybe if a mandated annual public report was made of the number of each decoration awarded to each rank in the military services would be a good place to start. Having to explain this in public might shame the O Force into explaining how so very few of the bulk of service member received so few awards while the smaller numbers of O's received so many in comparison. Maybe????

11-18-2011, 04:15 AM	#13
artkolkovk Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 443 Senior Member	I understand there are a lot of brave people doing out of the ordinary and going above and beyond what was reasonably expected of them every day - but such was the case in every war. I don't see awarding medals as some sort of competition - that we need to award just as many MOH as we did in WWII or Korea. But as far as being unfairly generous with officers while turning a blind eye to enlisted people who did something equivalent - I know for a fact that happens, and I've seen it happen. But I don't believe any amount of legislation is going to fix that. An organization run by officers for officers is always going to be like that, and I can't think of any way to fix it. Maybe if a mandated annual public report was made of the number of each decoration awarded to each rank in the military services would be a good place to start. Having to explain this in public might shame the O Force into explaining how so very few of the bulk of service member received so few awards while the smaller numbers of O's received so many in comparison. Maybe????
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