Author Topic: PFC Lynch gets Bronze Star and Hero's welcome.. (Read 3085 times)

Gixer · « **Reply #90 on:** July 23, 2003, 07:43:59 PM »

Here it just comes across as media hype and the military wanting a hero and "warm fuzzy" story from the war.

All very hollywood, and im sure they can't wait to make the movie.. The military's version of events is alot different to what has since been made public knowledge and the events as they really happend.

Then again the whole sorry episode is turning into a farce.

Medal for Valour? Can't see why.

Medal for being wounded? Never understood that one anyway.

~~...-Gixer~~

jamusta · « **Reply #91 on:** July 23, 2003, 08:02:55 PM »

Sorry but I have to say this.... There is no way that this girl was beat to an inch of her life. If this was the case, why? Why was she the only one beat so badly? Why would they beat her then send her to a hospital? She cant remember anything that happened but she can say she wasnt sexually attacked? Dont you think she could remember being beat? She supposedly got out of the hummer standing after being hit with RPG and running into another vehicle? Its not adding up...

Im with Furball.... Can I have one?

anonymous · « **Reply #92 on:** July 23, 2003, 10:22:26 PM »

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Originally posted by jamusta
Sorry but I have to say this.... There is no way that this girl was beat to an inch of her life. If this was the case, why? Why was she the only one beat so badly? Why would they beat her then send her to a hospital? She cant remember anything that happened but she can say she wasnt sexually attacked? Dont you think she could remember being beat? She supposedly got out of the hummer standing after being hit with RPG and running into another vehicle? Its not adding up...

Im with Furball.... Can I have one?

she was in the hospital because the iraqi intel types had set up shop there. they knew we dont target hospitals. they also had a torture room set up in the same hospital she was in. she was worked over somehow. she just now came home shed been in a hospital in germany from the time she was rescued almost until the time she came home.

Sox62 · « **Reply #93 on:** July 23, 2003, 10:31:36 PM »

I take my last post back.No one who is in a combat situation,even a supply or maintenance convoy,should get a medal until they get it cleared by a bunch of on-line gamers.

Have a nice fluff'n day.

anonymous · « **Reply #94 on:** July 23, 2003, 10:34:19 PM »

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Originally posted by Gixer
Medal for Valour? Can't see why.

i doubt its for valor. big difference between bronze star and bronze star with a v device. almost positive no v on her star. that would be totally wrong if you asked me.

Raubvogel · « **Reply #95 on:** July 23, 2003, 10:43:52 PM »

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Originally posted by Sox62
I take my last post back.No one who is in a combat situation,even a supply or maintenance convoy,should get a medal until they get it cleared by a bunch of on-line gamers.

Have a nice fluff'n day.

No there's the best post in this thread.

I've fired thousands of rounds from M16s, both A1 and A2, and M4, in all kinds of conditions, and jams are very infrequent. Overall it's a very reliable weapon. Someone didn't do their job if their weapons weren't maintained properly. Few months ago I put 360 rounds down range as fast as I could pull the trigger and change magazines and had not one malfunction. Couldn't touch the handgrips after I was done, but it performed flawlessly

As for the medal, how really cares? The Bronze Star was cheapened a long time ago. In Desert Storm, the guy who ran the generators at our base camp got a Bronze Star for "Continuosly providing power while under constant threat of enemy indirect fire".....

It's a good thing morale wise, I really don't care if she killed 100 Iraqis with a spork to get it.

jamusta · « **Reply #96 on:** July 23, 2003, 10:48:43 PM »

They had 2 Warrant Officers and a Sgt. They would not torture a PFC.. She knows absolutely nothing about anything sensitive to the operations over there. But hey what do I know. It is the Army way.

Like I said in my opinion if she gets one they should all get one.

Karnak · « **Reply #97 on:** July 24, 2003, 02:41:10 AM »

One thing I do know is that there were some upset WWII and Vietnam vets who held the Silver Star (different medal, I know, but it goes to showing trends) that felt their medals had been cheapened the way Silver Stars were handed out after Gulf War I. They felt that the standards for winning a Silver Star had been drastically lowered for showmanship reasons.

davidpt40 · « **Reply #98 on:** July 24, 2003, 02:41:29 AM »

Well she did better than her partners who got the convoy lost AND got killed. Unless your saving somebody, getting killed is worthless.

jamusta · « **Reply #99 on:** July 24, 2003, 04:49:54 PM »

Exactly you hit the nail on the head....There was a time when they handed out medals for charging machine gun pits with grenades.. Now you get one for not firing a shot and getting captured.

Mini D · « **Reply #100 on:** July 24, 2003, 04:54:39 PM »

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Originally posted by Sox62
I take my last post back.No one who is in a combat situation,even a supply or maintenance convoy,should get a medal until they get it cleared by a bunch of on-line gamers.

Have a nice fluff'n day.

Well said. Come out to the west coast mini-con. I'll buy you a beer for that one.

MiniD

Sandman · « **Reply #101 on:** July 24, 2003, 04:54:54 PM »

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Originally posted by davidpt40
Well she did better than her partners who got the convoy lost AND got killed. Unless your saving somebody, getting killed is worthless.

In addition to Lynch, these five received the Bronze Star: Joseph Hudson, Sgt. James Riley, Spec. Edgar Hernandez, and Spec. Shoshana Johnson.

Pfc. Patrick Miller, received the Silver Star.

Johnson is also female. No movie deals for her... I wonder if it's because she's black and not as "perky" as Lynch.

john9001 · « **Reply #102 on:** July 24, 2003, 05:33:37 PM »

i don't know nuttn about the army, but when i was in the Marines every marine was trained (and retrained) as a rifleman, your "second" job was cook, clerk,truck driver,etc, when crunch time came you dropped your frying pan and picked up your rifle, it's called 'force mulitplyer".
i was a truck mech, but half my in-service training was in small unit combat tactics.

Jack55 · « **Reply #103 on:** August 01, 2003, 08:12:27 PM »

Interview with 507th POWs on NBC now.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #104 on:** August 01, 2003, 08:57:39 PM »

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Originally posted by john9001
i don't know nuttn about the army, but when i was in the Marines every marine was trained (and retrained) as a rifleman, your "second" job was cook, clerk,truck driver,etc, when crunch time came you dropped your frying pan and picked up your rifle, it's called 'force mulitplyer".
i was a truck mech, but half my in-service training was in small unit combat tactics.

A good friend of mine was a cook in the USMC and said the exact same thing. Only makes sense, maximizing assets.