Author Topic: Wind Talkers - New Movie (Read 474 times)

Kratzer · « **Reply #15 on:** May 30, 2002, 09:34:59 AM »

Start with the Killer...

Curval · « **Reply #16 on:** May 30, 2002, 10:25:19 AM »

60 Minutes had a good story on the "Code Talkers" as they referred to.

Bush just presented the survivors with MOHs and I think the ones who are not around anymore were awarded the medals posthumiously (sp?).

True heros...despite how they were treated as kids etc.

Big ~~to them~~

Thrawn · « **Reply #17 on:** May 30, 2002, 11:55:51 AM »

Whoa, I thought the US MOH was given for INDIVIDUAL gallentry, not unit. No disrespect to the code talkers, but I hope Bush didn't cheapen the honor by giving it out for political reasons.

Curval · « **Reply #18 on:** May 30, 2002, 12:06:56 PM »

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Originally posted by Thrawn
Whoa, I thought the US MOH was given for INDIVIDUAL gallentry, not unit. No disrespect to the code talkers, but I hope Bush didn't cheapen the honor by giving it out for political reasons.

They were given individually....there wasn't any "unit" of code talkers, the original 29 were all divided up into various units within the services.

I don't think that it cheapens the MOH though...these guys were right in the "thick" of the fighting and saved thousands of lives through their actions.

One incident they described was when a commander, who was reluctant to use the Navajo attached to his unit, finally gave up trying to get information with the "old codes" and called up the code talker...five minutes later the response came back, "Enemy machine gun on your right flank...destroy"....they did just that.

Thrawn · « **Reply #19 on:** May 30, 2002, 12:19:44 PM »

I looks like the requirements for awarding the US MOH is a more open ended then I thought.

"10A. On July 25,1963 Congress established a set of guidelines under which the Medal of Honor could be awarded:
a.) while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States;
b.) while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force; or,
c.) while serving with friendly forces engaged in armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party. "