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TnDem

(1,390 posts) Wed Aug 20, 2025, 07:19 PM Aug 2025

Cannot get the Medal of Honor by definition

The MOH is for valor under hostile enemy fire.

He would be a candidate for "The Soldier's Medal", which is bravery when not under enemy fire.

Hugh Thompson, the helicopter pilot who argued with Calley in the field about My Lai was awarded the Soldier's Medal because he was defying his own troops.

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