Army Awards...New Levels of Fail

[AWP]

We have a contractor placing a database online with SSN's and potential Silver Star awardees unaware of their awards. At least one is a retired SF SGM.

The former is worth a monkey-stomping, the latter is just sad.

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/...r-stars-without-telling-recipients/?hpt=hp_t3

The accidental posting of personal information online about top Army combat award recipients has created confusion over whether some soldiers were ever told that they had earned Silver Stars for heroism.
At issue is the discovery last week of a document inadvertently published on the Web by a contractor that listed hundreds of valor award recipients beginning in 2001.
The list includes the names and Social Security numbers of Medal of Honor and the Distinguished Service Cross recipients from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The list also includes the names of hundreds of Silver Star recipients from the same conflicts, but does not note their Social Security information.

 

[Kraut783]

EPIC FAIL....how disappointing, but somehow, not surprising.

 

[Teufel]

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"People now get them (Silver Stars) for sitting behind a desk in an office in Afghanistan," he said."​

I understand Sgt Maj Raikes is understandably upset about this cluster of fail but this is not an accurate statement. The requirements for bronze stars and below may have become diluted, especially for officers and senior NCOs, but the individual valor awards still require individual acts of valor.​

 

[Marauder06]

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"People now get them (Silver Stars) for sitting behind a desk in an office in Afghanistan," he said."

I understand Sgt Maj Raikes is understandably upset about this cluster of fail but this is not an accurate statement. The requirements for bronze stars and below may have become diluted, especially for officers and senior NCOs, but the individual valor awards still require individual acts of valor.

I agree. If he were talking about the BSM, he'd be accurate. People do get BSMs for desk jobs... I have. But a BSM(V) and/or Silver Star? Yeah, I'd need to see specific examples to believe that desk jockeys were getting those awards.