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Petraeus Allegedly Earned A Bronze Star For Combat Valor 'Without Firing his Rifle' -- Business Insider
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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My Comment: The knives are out for David Petraues.
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The way that medals are awarded in the US military is very out of sync. There is an enormous amount of politics (not to besmerch the times when the award is spot on), such as officers getting a higher decoration for the same action that an enlisted man would receive. (Note: I'm a retired officer.)
For example, I have never seen an Army officer who served in Viet Nam that did *not* have a Bronze Star. A Bronze Star was awarded to a female Army 1LT (originally put in for a Commendation Medal), who never left the Khobar Towers compound in Ad Dammam during Desert Storm -- even she admitted that it was political correctness.
The stories abound ...
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