Thank god there are some actual journalists that are able to uncover important stories like this for the public to see. Unfortunately, it isn’t as entertaining as reporting on the ground zero mosque, so the commercial media won’t pick it up.

But please, keep up the work! It’s this type of reporting that makes the media necessary in society.

I believe it is time for the President to haul SecDef, SecArmy, the Army Chief of Staff and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs into his office and read them the riot act about this.

Many men and woman in the military have not recievied this and other awards because of sloppy paper work. And there are other reasons. One US Marine waited over twenty years fo the Medal of Honor. He was avacuted from the “Canal”  before he could be investigated.  His paper work never completed. He had to work though DAV and others to prove it. This was reported in DAV magazine, some two years ago. They should hand out medals for getting serious red tape.  And to those who help GI’s get there due.
I served in Vietnam era 64-65.
Thank all for their Service. And may God bless all who have served.

Dennis J Katz AA
USN\USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA31)
3 Dec 63 to 17 Nov 67
National Serivice Medal
Armed Forces Exp. Medal
Vietnam Service Medal w 1961- (device)

I believe that you report was slanted and inaccurate.  Medical Commanders in theater only approve medals for soldiers assigned to their units.  It is rare that a soldier assigned to a medical unit would be allowed outside of the wire without the theater medical commander’s approval.  The purpose of the memo that was in this report was to call attention to the fact that soldiers need documentation that they were treated for a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI).  BG Caravalho was attempting to let his subordinate doctors know that they needed to document any and all mTBI complaints that there patients had.  Doctors cannot approve the recommendation for the Purple Heart.  Doctors can only review the medical records and say yea or nay to the presence of supporting documentation.  I feel that you all did a masterful job of throwing the General under the bus by reporting the contents of the memo out of context.

Siva Williams
SFC, USA

i suppose is about a frustration of this people to feel like slaves,is about cia influence

If the Purple Hearts are/were awarded in accordance with the specifications for the medal met, then the military would have to admit to the HUGE number of TBI injuries incurred by U.S. troops rather than obfuscating those numbers.  The ruse begins with the doctors not reporting TBI injuries or failing to include in in their ‘documentation.’  There are several investigative articles about such actions and about how the military has downplayed the serious and life-altering affects of TBI’s so they can keep down all the attendant medical costs for treating TBI victims.  As long as Gates (remember U S ops in Central America and Olly North and Poindexter…his pals?) is Secy of Defense, obfuscation, subterfuge, and suppression of evidence will the SOP.