Maintaining the “sanctity of the awards, Marine style.”:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6930414/
Seems like it was handled very badly by the Corps, however. Puggs was injured in a “non-combat” situation – that doesn’t make his injuries any less real or the effects any less lasting (as we are learning from his prolonged hiatus).
Sprained my ankle badly playing volleyball with some Saudi soldiers during GWI. Volleyball was stamped ‘Made in Iraq”. Never could get my boss to go for the ‘injured as a result of enemy action’ thing…Nor would he go for a later incident in which I was laid up with food poisoning for several days after eating a spoiled cream donut that had been baked by a Yemeni…the nerve of them folks… Across town at the stealth fighter base rumor had it that at least one officer had received a purple heart for contracting frostbite on his butt from the air conditioner behind his desk…but hey, bitter? moi? 😉
Pingback: Cerberus Blog