THIS man was a warrior


No, He was a Hero and always will be until the last Warrior passes on.

ALL Military should be considered Warriors. The Military got away from the Warrior Ethos from the end of Vietnam to the middle of Desert Storm. Not all units got away from the Warrior Ethos luckily. What made USAF to start teaching the Warrior Ethos once again was the mess where the supply convoy was ambushed and Jessica hid in a wheel well why her Sgt was melting his barrel down. She was awarded a Bronze Star. Her actions cause the USAF to take a good long hard look at people in pickle suits and determined just because it said US Army on the Uniform doesn't mean they are capable combat troops. It changed the training in Basic where each and every AF Member was a capable Warrior. The Marines never stopped teaching the Warrior Ethos and the Navy followed suit. It took decades to get the Warrior Ethos into the military and it may take that long to completely integrate it back in. But they started.
 
The MOH awarded Marine (it's common but improper to say Medal of Honor "winner") was a handsome guy and could probably have gone on to a film career after the bond drive but he felt a loyalty to his men and went back and was killed in action on Iwo Jima. Historians don't make this point but it's quite possible that Basilone personally saved the Guadalcanal campaign from annihilation when held back the last ditch Japanese charge repairing machine guns under fire in the dark by feel and comforting and resupplying his machine gun platoon and later engaging the enemy at point blank range with a .45. The Guadalcanal campaign was hanging by a thread after a timid Navy Admiral withdrew supply ships and Marines were starving and disease ridden and running out of ammunition while facing fresh Japanese troops.
 
He was just a man. Like many other men throughout history he submitted himself foolishly fighting someone else's war. As it turned out he was lucky and fairly good at his job. But like most men who fight other men for some other men, he was killed doing so.

To assuage guilt, people award such fools medals and speak well of their heroic sacrifice like that changes anything. Longer we as a human race continue to glorify war and call fools anything but, we'll just keep making war.
 
Delta is just being a cock gobbling scumbag piece of shit motherfucker. So, no change there.

For once, prison-boi offered a post (thread) worthy of some attention.

Here's a newsflash for Beta.4Consulate:

There ARE some enemies worth fighting against and causes worth fighting for, you dipshit piece of crap.
 
Delta is just being a cock gobbling scumbag piece of shit motherfucker. So, no change there.

For once, prison-boi offered a post (thread) worthy of some attention.

Here's a newsflash for Beta.4Consulate:

There ARE some enemies worth fighting against and causes worth fighting for, you dipshit piece of crap.

Look at the history of wars. Enemies become friends, and friends become enemies again. There is NO cause worth fighting for. We only say that to help ourselves cope with the utter futility of war.

Politicians start wars but do not fight them. Then they end the war, pat themselves on the back, shake hands with the other politicians and plan the next one.

Every country convinces itself they're the good guys, and whoever's designated the enemy of the moment is the bad guys. But when you look at the wars the world's had, there are no good guys or bad guys, there's just a lot of gullible fools who've been convinced their lives have no value unless spent defending some piece of crap country whose leadership sent them somewhere to die for nothing.
 
Delta is just being a cock gobbling scumbag piece of shit motherfucker. So, no change there.

For once, prison-boi offered a post (thread) worthy of some attention.

Here's a newsflash for Beta.4Consulate:

There ARE some enemies worth fighting against and causes worth fighting for, you dipshit piece of crap.

Look at the history of wars. Enemies become friends, and friends become enemies again. There is NO cause worth fighting for. We only say that to help ourselves cope with the utter futility of war.

Politicians start wars but do not fight them. Then they end the war, pat themselves on the back, shake hands with the other politicians and plan the next one.

Every country convinces itself they're the good guys, and whoever's designated the enemy of the moment is the bad guys. But when you look at the wars the world's had, there are no good guys or bad guys, there's just a lot of gullible fools who've been convinced their lives have no value unless spent defending some piece of crap country whose leadership sent them somewhere to die for nothing.

You remain a vain, egotistical and mindless gutter snipe.

My apologies to gutter snipes.

The Nazis, you asshole, were evil. Period.

Fighting them WAS a good.

Of course folks convince themselves that they are the ones in the right. It only took you to this date to figure that out after the rest of the world has known it all along. Good for you, you tool.

But just because the Nazis considered themselves to be the ones in the right and the ones with God on their side doesn't mean they were. In an absolute sense, you fucking shit head, there is such a thing as right and wrong. They WERE the ones in the wrong. They needed to be fought and they NEEDED to be roundly defeated.

Your mindless verbal spew of diarrhea doesn't change any of that.
 
The Medal of Honor is so respected in the Military that Generals salute Privates who wear the award.

It's in the regulation. Everyone in uniform must salute a MOH holder.
I beg to differ, it might be a reminder in the Officer's handbook but is not a regulation and there is no penalty anywhere in the entire UCMJ for not doing so. Generals salute the MOH out of respect, always have.
 
The Medal of Honor is so respected in the Military that Generals salute Privates who wear the award.

It's in the regulation. Everyone in uniform must salute a MOH holder.
I beg to differ, it might be a reminder in the Officer's handbook but is not a regulation and there is no penalty anywhere in the entire UCMJ for not doing so. Generals salute the MOH out of respect, always have.

AFT1-1

1.6.1.1.
You salute the President, Vice President, Secretary of Defense, Service
Secretaries, all superior commissioned and warrant officers, all Medal of Honor
recipients, and superior officers of friendly foreign nations.

This is Air Force but there is one for each branch of the service. Those on active duty and temp duty ARE required to salute MOH recipients. Army Regulation 600–25
 

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