Posted: 12/11/2009 5:18:04 PM EDT
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MOH Per Service
Army 2405 Navy 746 Marines 297 Air Force 17 Coast Guard 1 *** One would think the Marines would have more... That one surprised me. |
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Quoted: there are more soldiers in the army than marines in the usmc. also, when marines perform such acts they are often overlooked because it is so common. they cant afford to give them to every service member  (seriously, probably the first one) There aren't that many more trigger pullers in the Army than in the Marines though. |
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MOH werent always what they are now. The Navy used to give them out everytime someone fell off a boat might be true (never heard that before) but they also used to give the MOH for capturing the enemy's colors (flag) which is why the youngest recipient is like 15 and one guy has it twice for the same thing. at one time i had a book from the library which listed every recipient and reason it was awarded. pretty interesting and definitely distracted me from the real reason i had the book (a college paper and only needed a few citations) |
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an example of one of the peacetime MOH recipients. not saying he isnt a great guy but hes no murphy or york
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_King_(sailor) |
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MOH werent always what they are now. The Navy used to give them out everytime someone fell off a boat When the medal was first introduced, the Army gave it to every member of a particular operation (behind Confederate lines IIRC). There are over 1500 from the Civil war alone. As for the Coast Guard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Albert_Munro |
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MOH werent always what they are now. The Navy used to give them out everytime someone fell off a boat When the medal was first introduced, the Army gave it to every member of a particular operation (behind Confederate lines IIRC). There are over 1500 from the Civil war alone. As for the Coast Guard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Albert_Munro Sounds pretty damn heroic to me. |