Now they want to rescind MOH from the distant past

[baboon]

Biden Admin Looks to Rescind 20 Medal of Honor Awards Given to Soldiers in the 1890s Who Are Dead and Can’t Defend Themselves

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III has ordered the Department of Defense to review the Medal of Honor awarded to 20 soldiers for their actions in the Wounded Knee Massacre that took place in 1890.

Austin wrote in a memo, “The [special review panel] may consider the context of the overall engagement as appropriate, including as necessary to understand each [Wounded Knee Creek Medal of Honor] recipient’s individual actions.”

In a separate statement, a senior defense official shared, “It’s never too late to do what’s right.”

The official added, “And that’s what is intended by the review that the secretary directed, which is to ensure that we go back and review each of these medals in a rigorous and individualized manner to understand the actions of the individual in the context of the overall engagement.”

Per The Department of Defense:

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III has directed the Defense Department to review the Medals of Honor awarded to approximately 20 soldiers for their actions during the December 1890 engagement at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota, to ensure no awardees were recognized for conduct inconsistent with the nation’s highest military honor.

DOD’s Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness will convene a special review panel to conduct an individualized assessment based on standards in effect during that period.

The scope of the panel’s review is limited to examining each Medal of Honor awardee’ s individual actions during the engagement at Wounded Knee Creek. However, “The [special review panel] may consider the context of the overall engagement as appropriate, including as necessary to understand each [Wounded Knee Creek Medal of Honor] recipient’s individual actions,” Austin wrote in a memorandum directing the review, which was released today.

Austin signed the memorandum last week following department consultation with the White House and Department of the Interior.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/pentagon-looks-rescind-20-medal-honor-awards-given/

 

[Mohawk600]

revision of history

 

[Tnhawk]

Did they not vote democrat during the last elections?

 

[Moonpie]

It's good to see the government addressing such timely critical issues that matter to taxpayers today.

 

[Rafe]

Did they not vote democrat during the last elections?

The soldiers who fought in 1890 almost certainly did, and will continue to, vote for the democrat ticket.

 

[Rafe]

Biden Admin Looks to Rescind 20 Medal of Honor Awards Given to Soldiers in the 1890s Who Are Dead and Can’t Defend Themselves

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III has ordered the Department of Defense to review the Medal of Honor awarded to 20 soldiers for their actions in the Wounded Knee Massacre that took place in 1890.

Austin wrote in a memo, “The [special review panel] may consider the context of the overall engagement as appropriate, including as necessary to understand each [Wounded Knee Creek Medal of Honor] recipient’s individual actions.”

In a separate statement, a senior defense official shared, “It’s never too late to do what’s right.”

The official added, “And that’s what is intended by the review that the secretary directed, which is to ensure that we go back and review each of these medals in a rigorous and individualized manner to understand the actions of the individual in the context of the overall engagement.”

Per The Department of Defense:

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III has directed the Defense Department to review the Medals of Honor awarded to approximately 20 soldiers for their actions during the December 1890 engagement at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota, to ensure no awardees were recognized for conduct inconsistent with the nation’s highest military honor.

DOD’s Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness will convene a special review panel to conduct an individualized assessment based on standards in effect during that period.

The scope of the panel’s review is limited to examining each Medal of Honor awardee’ s individual actions during the engagement at Wounded Knee Creek. However, “The [special review panel] may consider the context of the overall engagement as appropriate, including as necessary to understand each [Wounded Knee Creek Medal of Honor] recipient’s individual actions,” Austin wrote in a memorandum directing the review, which was released today.

Austin signed the memorandum last week following department consultation with the White House and Department of the Interior.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/pentagon-looks-rescind-20-medal-honor-awards-given/

While our federal government undertakes this vital and urgent investigation into whether the ordered actions of past Medal of Honor recipients should no longer be considered, after 124 years, to be politically correct (again, let's remember that the actions were performed under order and were considered afterwards to be meritorious and deserving of the nation's highest military honor), the Obama/Biden and Biden/Harris administrations have continued to hand out newly-minted Medals of Honor to Union soldiers for heroism in killing Confederate soldiers 152 years ago. See this TGT post from 3 weeks ago: https://texasguntalk.com/threads/tell-us-something-we-dont-know.86926/page-155#post-3119627.

We have awarded 1,525 Medals of Honor to Union soldiers for actions in the Civil War. And that's just fine, because what they did is still considered honorable and true. It all depends on who wins and who writes--in many cases, rewrites--history.

Like @Mohawk600 said, this is revisionism, pure and simple. Taking a brush and bleach to history to make it conform to political and personal agendas.

Under Biden/Harris the DOD in 2022 implemented the "Naming Commission" to undertake, with your tax dollars, the equally vital and urgent task of investigating and then "appropriately" renaming U.S. military bases. Nine bases were identified and the estimated cost to tax payers was initially estimated at $21 million. By March 2023 that estimate had jumped to $39 million.

To quote the Military Times:

"The renaming involves replacing names not only at the installation gates, but on facilities, streets, numerous smaller signs, and technology, he said.

"Service officials have until the end of the year to remove the names, symbols, displays, monuments, and paraphernalia that honor or commemorate the Confederacy or any person who served voluntarily with the Confederacy."

To name only a few, Ft. Benning, Ft. Bragg, and Ft. Hood are no more. Benning and Hood are now Forts Moore and Cavazos, respectively, named after men who received the Distinguished Service Cross during the Vietnam War. And what exactly do we do if, a decade from now, there is DEI and sensitivity pressure to remove those names because of perceived malintent of the U.S. military toward the people of Vietnam, many thousands of whom now have fully naturalized Vietnamese-American families thriving here? My doctor--who is also an avid IDPA shooter and LTC holder, BTW--being just one example.

Meanwhile, amidst all the revisionism and calls for reparations and BLM riots, it's perfectly fine that Donald Trump's ancestors never owned slaves while Kamala Harris descends from the largest Bahamian slave owner and trader in history. She speaks the right words and appeases the "progressives" just fine, so she's okay; the left will rally around her.

I'm fuming over the abrogation of Medals of Honor because the conflict is no longer "politically correct," and over Lloyd Austin saying, "It's never too late to do what’s right."

Sure it is, General. The 2020 vote didn't go the way half the country wanted and now it's too late to prevent you from being appointed as Secretary of Defense just days later and being sworn in by Kamala Harris on January 28, 2021.

 

[Lead Belly]

Joe Biden* 46th President of the US




* installed

 

[Nofir55]

You can't make this s....up

 

[Mohawk600]

While our federal government undertakes this vital and urgent investigation into whether the ordered actions of past Medal of Honor recipients should no longer be considered, after 124 years, to be politically correct (again, let's remember that the actions were performed under order and were considered afterwards to be meritorious and deserving of the nation's highest military honor), the Obama/Biden and Biden/Harris administrations have continued to hand out newly-minted Medals of Honor to Union soldiers for heroism in killing Confederate soldiers 152 years ago. See this TGT post from 3 weeks ago: https://texasguntalk.com/threads/tell-us-something-we-dont-know.86926/page-155#post-3119627.

We have awarded 1,525 Medals of Honor to Union soldiers for actions in the Civil War. And that's just fine, because what they did is still considered honorable and true. It all depends on who wins and who writes--in many cases, rewrites--history.

Like @Mohawk600 said, this is revisionism, pure and simple. Taking a brush and bleach to history to make it conform to political and personal agendas.

Under Biden/Harris the DOD in 2022 implemented the "Naming Commission" to undertake, with your tax dollars, the equally vital and urgent task of investigating and then "appropriately" renaming U.S. military bases. Nine bases were identified and the estimated cost to tax payers was initially estimated at $21 million. By March 2023 that estimate had jumped to $39 million.

To quote the Military Times:



To name only a few, Ft. Benning, Ft. Bragg, and Ft. Hood are no more. Benning and Hood are now Forts Moore and Cavazos, respectively, named after men who received the Distinguished Service Cross during the Vietnam War. And what exactly do we do if, a decade from now, there is DEI and sensitivity pressure to remove those names because of perceived malintent of the U.S. military toward the people of Vietnam, many thousands of whom now have fully naturalized Vietnamese-American families thriving here? My doctor--who is also an avid IDPA shooter and LTC holder, BTW--being just one example.

Meanwhile, amidst all the revisionism and calls for reparations and BLM riots, it's perfectly fine that Donald Trump's ancestors never owned slaves while Kamala Harris descends from the largest Bahamian slave owner and trader in history. She speaks the right words and appeases the "progressives" just fine, so she's okay; the left will rally around her.

I'm fuming over the abrogation of Medals of Honor because the conflict is no longer "politically correct," and over Lloyd Austin saying, "It's never too late to do what’s right."

Sure it is, General. The 2020 vote didn't go the way half the country wanted and now it's too late to prevent you from being appointed as Secretary of Defense just days later and being sworn in by Kamala Harris on January 28, 2021.

Great post Rafe.

One thing that particularly burns me is the renaming of military bases.

The renaming of anything because the names just don't fit well into the newthink/ newspeak social justice mentality. Public bildings, parks, roadways, university facilities, etc..........it becomes freaking endless and just plain ridiculous.

This includes the most ridiculous of all of it...........the idea that men can be women and women can be men and that there are 50 fu@king shades in between.

 

[Moonpie]

I guess they already solved the black mold and sewage back ups in the barracks problems.

 

[WT_Foxtrot]

Communism at work

 

[seeker_two]

As long as we're "correcting" historical accolades, when will we hold Grant and Sherman accountable for their war crimes?.....