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| Second Ganjgal Medal of Honor case active |
| 2011-09-16 |
| A former Army captain has been recommended for the Medal of Honor, having played a vital role two years ago countering an ambush in eastern Afghanistan and braving enemy fire to help retrieve the bodies of three fallen Marines and a corpsman. Will Swenson, who left active duty in February, was put up for the nation's highest combat valor award for his actions during the Sept. 8, 2009, battle in the remote village of Ganjgal, according to an officer who was with Task Force Mountain Warrior, the brigade that oversaw Swenson's unit. Swenson worked alongside then-Marine Cpl. Dakota Meyer, who received the Medal of Honor on Thursday for actions in the same battle. Approval of Swenson's award had apparently stalled, but it received new scrutiny last month by Marine Gen. John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The second look came after rampant speculation as to why Swenson had not received an award for valor. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #3 Not only criticism, Bill. Bobby Jindal mentions that during the BP oil spill, his Emergency Management Administration sent a routine request to their federal counterparts asking them to expedite Social Security and Unemployment payments to the communities affected. This is a routine request made by states whenever a federal disaster is declared. GW Bush handled several of these without comment. The first thing Barack did when he got off the plane in LA was accuse Jindal of trying to make him look bad and threatening retribution. Al |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2011-09-16 11:24 |
| #2 Politics. The current ROE are Obambi's regime. So he complains about the ROE, it gets in the Army Times and his CMOH recommendation is conveniently shoved into the bottom of the file cabinet. Nothing this administration does surprises me, they are thin-skinned about every word of criticism and vindictive toward those who do criticize. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2011-09-16 10:20 |
| #1 Thank you, Captain Swenson. Good to see the MOH going to survivors. Too bad the processing can't be completed before they leave the service. But it is good to have these living legends among us publicly recognized. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2011-09-16 05:06 |