{"id":14639,"date":"2011-12-19T02:00:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T05:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=14639"},"modified":"2011-12-19T02:00:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T05:00:37","slug":"us-rep-questions-lack-of-awards-for-libya-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/19\/us-rep-questions-lack-of-awards-for-libya-action\/","title":{"rendered":"US Rep Questions Lack of Awards for Libya Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Representative Duncan Hunter (R-CA) wrote a letter to Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus questioning why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/2011\/12\/marine-lawmaker-award-marines-for-libya-ops-121011w\/\">no US Marine has been awarded for their actions in Libya<\/a> &#8212; despite the very public search and rescue of a <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/22\/us-fighter-downed-in-libya\/\">downed\u00a0F-15E <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/22\/us-fighter-downed-in-libya\/\">Strike Eagle<\/a> <\/em>crew.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It has come to my attention that no awards or recognition have been approved for Marine aviators who flew combat missions over Libya,&#8221; Hunter wrote in a recent letter to Mabus.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently a request is in to designate Libya a combat area, which might make such awards more forthcoming.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter is a Marine veteran himself.<\/p>\n<p>While there is certainly some validity in recognizing troops for their actions, it&#8217;s also worth saying that not every thing nor every one should get a medal &#8220;just &#8217;cause.&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/air-force-tanker-pilot-awarded-19th-air-medal\/\">Taken to an extreme<\/a>, it demeans and dilutes such recognition, inhibiting the ability to publicly recognize actual nobility and heroism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Representative Duncan Hunter (R-CA) wrote a letter to Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus questioning why no US Marine has been awarded for their actions in Libya &#8212; despite the very public search and rescue of a downed\u00a0F-15E Strike Eagle crew. &#8220;It has come to my attention that no awards or recognition have been approved for Marine aviators who [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1365,5285,1589,149,2,36,2574],"class_list":["post-14639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-duncan-hunter","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-libya","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-ray-mabus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}