Re: New Metal for UAV operators
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ZLBubba</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: savage110FPshoot</div><div class="ubbcode-body">HORSESHIT!
A "thanks for the SUPPORT" from the men on the ground they are SUPPORTING from a very very safe distance should be plenty for them. Everyone has their place in the military, but not everyone deserves any sort of high ranking medals on or ABOVE the people truly in harm's way for that said job. Should have picked a more "heroic" job if that's what you're after...
Carry on with the pussification of America... </div></div>
^This. Complete horseshit. If they're getting a medal, it should be about as significant as an Army Achievement Medal, which is pretty meaningless. Having it above a BS means that you're essentially telling the ground units, "Fuck you guys, we value gamers over barrel-chested freedom fighters." Fuck. That. Noise.</div></div>
Lol. This.
If you think medals are ridiculous, listen to this...
I'm working convoy support outside of Baghdad and get a call to snap north for an emergency tasking, details enroute. Im getting geared up for a TIC. South of Balad we are told to intercept a wounded Predator and escort it to base.
WTF?
So you pull an armed fighter off a CAS mission to escort an unmanned damaged drone? No wonder they didn't tell us what it was. I'd be happy, on the way home, after my primary mission, to bomb it for them if it crashed just to keep technology out of the wrong hands. But escorting a drone with a manned fighter is a ridiculous misallocation of resources and firepower. Not that I was surprised really.
Guy probably got an airmedal for landing it. Hope he didn't get PTSD.