Sgt. Dakota Meyer Receives Medal Of Honor Today At 23 Years Old.

[dipisc]

Hi;

     This goes to show everyone that America still has young Men and Women that are willing to sacrifice for this Country. You take an average high school grad and when properly trained has more responsibility and maturety than those who do not enlist.

     It is a shame that most who do not serve this country end up making more money and promotions than the Vet. Non Vets usually end up making the decisions that effect all of us. In the end Vets are just glad to be back home and want to live in peace. When Sgt. Meyers was first called about his being awarded the MOH, he stated that he was at work and if he did not go on working he would not be paid. The White House then called him back during his lunch.

     What is needed is to get those who burn the flag and protest at Military Funerals on planes and put them in between the bad guys and the good guys. That would make the enemy expend a lot of munitions on worthless targets.

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Great work and very well deserved. Both he and the driver went above and beyond the call of duty.


Tom, you hit it right on the head about the command element being wiped out right off the bat. Unlucky, fortunately the servicemen and women today are trained so well that the next in line assumes command and continues on to complete the objective. That, in my opinion, reflects how professional our soldiers are today.

[Solus]

Great work and very well deserved. Both he and the driver went above and beyond the call of duty.


Tom, you hit it right on the head about the command element being wiped out right off the bat. Unlucky, fortunately the servicemen and women today are trained so well that the next in line assumes command and continues on to complete the objective. That, in my opinion, reflects how professional our soldiers are today.

We were trained like that back in '66.  

And it is a tremendous advantage.  

Part of the training was examples given of armed forces where the field level leaders where taken out and the unit ceased to function.

Drilled and drilled it into us that if the bosses are hit, don't worry to much about who is next in command....  You know what, step up and to do.  

Not only was it good tactics, it was wonderful for moral....thinking you are being given the skill, knowledge and responsibility to run the show.  

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The problem with that is that the person who has been paying attention to the "larger picture is removed from the scene and the responsibility is suddenly dropped in the lap of some one who has only been aware of the situation in his immediate vicinity. Lots of bad things can happen while he is getting up to speed.