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Securing America: New Military Medal
There’s a new honor for a new age of warfare. That’s the thinking behind a new medal authorized by outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.
FOX News Radio’s Rich Johnson reports from Washington in our ongoing series on national security:
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Securing America.
A drone piloted by someone half a world away. A computer expert defending against cyber attack and counterattacking. Many of today’s warriors are nowhere near a battlefield, and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says that’s what the new Distinguished Warfare Medal will recognize.
(Sec. Panetta) “The extraordinary achievements that directly impact on combat operations, but that do not involve acts of valor or physical risk that combat entails.”
The new blue, red and white-ribboned Distinguished Warfare Medal will be retroactive, covering military operations since September 11, 2001. It’s the first new military medal since the Bronze Star was created in 1944.
In Washington, Rich Johnson, FOX News Radio.
Mike
February 14, 2013 at 8:06 pm
This award is a disgrace. For all practical purposes, people operating drones are playing video games and have no connection or responsibility for the suffering they inflict. This manner of 'sanitizing' killing is the last thing we should be giving awards for.
SgtD
February 15, 2013 at 2:59 pm
The PoW medal was authorized on 08Nov 1985. That is quite a bit newer than 1944.
Phil
February 15, 2013 at 4:17 pm
To place this meda above the Bronze Star is a disgrace. You see I was awarded a Bronze Star for actions taken during the 1968 Tet Offensive while under fire. Now some clerk gets a higher recognition then me and the rest of my Vietnam brothers. A real disgrace.
dolores cocuzzo
February 19, 2013 at 1:41 pm
you have got to be kidding me – what an insult to Auidie Murphy – hand to hand combat putting his life on line to protect his fellow soldiers and these are being given out to military people who sit behind and are not even in battle – this is a disgrace to the service of all American military men who won medals on the battle field and expdcially to the boy hero of WW2 Audie Leon Murphy – how could someone sanction this medal?