Looking for General Mattis BSV citation

I am shocked. It seems Mattis went to some awards dinner comedy roast type thing...He does a shout out to Chuck Schumer and compares himself to Meryl Streep, as being the world's most overrated General, she was called an overrated actress...

It is obvious to me he is a Pentagon Military industrial complex pentagon pimp with neocon dem leaning politics... but what I can't fathom is him calling his CIC-- Donald Trump. The hate is rancid...

I am shocked that TigerInDC AND TigerDoc didn't post this dem talking point; to hate Trump trending on twitter orange man bad 'gotcha' at 0500 this morning.

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To show your politics is one thing, (and giving Schumer a shout out seals this) but to not refer to him as CIC or President tells me Mattis is a snake in the grass neocon democrat before country. It is both shocking and sad.

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I find odd that it seems difficult to find his (Citations)

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He's an officer so while he may have some legit awards, most will probably for not getting a papercut for 6 month types.

The V is for valor, signifying it wasn't for paper pushing.

Yet his wiki page says nothing about it nor did I note him being in combat.

I don’t pull out of shite

Gotcha!

if you think of the Govt like a big corporation, the best sales and ops people almost never make it to the Exec Level.

The cult of Mattis derived from many being programmed to glorify war by watching it LIVE on CNN years ago. (With embedded reporters) We were lied to with a shady CIA and all govt. agencies regarding fake intel... To: justify war as being righteous and not just for officials making money and back door deals for gas pipelines and what not..

SA was behind 911. ISIS was created by Obama and McCain neocons and others.

The ones like Bill Kristol that are still neocons blows my mind. They are fat bank accts first; over country just like the D's and R's and the overrated Generals and JCS Pentagon pimps.

I think Admiral Lyons-RIP Died: December 12, 2018 was a real hero more worthy of praise and admiration.

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Yeah I looked through the Google and looked at his stack and it's pretty meh for how much love he gets. Dont get me wrong, hes a fellow Marine and great leader, but being as hyped he is, I've never really looked into it. Waiting to get blown up for this thread, but I really dont care.

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You won't get blown up. (Maybe DVed by the wussy progs that post here because Mattis is now their hero) Your OP is an excellent point, who would think to check his citations?

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Yeah I looked through the Google and looked at his stack and it's pretty meh for how much love he gets. Dont get me wrong, hes a fellow Marine and great leader, but being as hyped he is, I've never really looked into it. Waiting to get blown up for this thread, but I really dont care.

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Eh, it's not like he had a lot of opportunity as a junior officer. The one time he was actually in combat prior to becoming a flag officer - Gulf War - he won a BSM-V.

There wasn't anyone racking up Silver Stars and DSC's prior to 2001.

Defense Distinguished Service Medal (2)
Navy Distinguished Service Medal
Defense Superior Service Medal
Legion of Merit
Bronze Star Medal (with Valor)
Meritorious Service Medal (3)

According to this: wiki

In December 2001 an airstrike carried out by a B-52 bomber inadvertently targeted a position held by U.S. special operations troops and Afghan militiamen in Urozgan Province. Numerous men were wounded in the incident, but Mattis repeatedly refused to dispatch helicopters from the nearby Camp Rhino to recover them, citing operational safety concerns. Instead an Air Force helicopter flew from Uzbekistan to ferry the men to the Marine Corps base where helicopters sat readily available but unauthorized to fly. Captain Jason Amerine blamed the delay caused by Mattis's refusal to order a rescue operation for the deaths of several men. Amerine wrote, "Every element in Afghanistan tried to help us except the closest friendly unit, commanded by Mattis," though he also wrote that "none of that was assessed properly because the [5th Special Forces Group] chose not to call for a formal investigation"

Pretty damning shite here - one reason I never cared for him... The politician in him got the best of him... Had there been a formal review, no way in hell he gets past one star...

More than likely got his Bronze Star with V for Desert Storm.