Thanks to Glenn Greenwald for posting and commenting on a Washington Post story about America’s noble “joystick” executioners:
The Pentagon is considering awarding a Distinguished Warfare Medal to drone pilots who work on military bases often far removed from the battlefield.
Pentagon officials have been briefed on the medal’s “unique concept,” Charles V. Mugno, head of the Army Institute of Heraldry, told a recent meeting of the Commission of Fine Arts, according to a report in Coin World by our former colleague Bill McAllister.
Mugno said most combat decorations require “boots on the ground” in a combat zone, but he noted that “emerging technologies” such as drones and cyber combat missions are now handled by troops far removed from combat.
The Pentagon has not formally endorsed the medal, but Mugno’s institute has completed six alternate designs for commission approval.
I would love to see these jerks forced into one-on-one confrontations with real warriors.
It’s often been said that the best way to prevent a war is to have the leader from each side of the proposed conflict fight each other to the death as the opposing armies looked on. Either that or cut the defense budget so that it can only be used for defense and not for offense. Our $750 billion dollar a year defense budget should be cut by at least 50% to appraoch the defense only point.
Now, now, Suze you know it ain’t patriotic to critisize our “noble and brave” warriors.