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Marine Capt. Brian R. Chontosh Received The Navy Cross Medal
Again in keeping with trying to bring to you positive stories from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan I had this link sent to me. So I looked it up to find it out and found these.
The Story of 1st LT. Brian Chontosh a real American hero. This site has a great story about 1st LT., now Captain, Brian Chontosh and his being awarded the Navy Cross; and how the MSM has ignored it. Even his own hometown newspaper does not give it proper respect. And from an article in Marine Corp News: Quote:
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I remember it floating around as one of the spams that evryone forwards to their friends...don't remember it on the news.
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This has been previously reported and posted here...still good to read about again though.
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A search of the New York Times archives gets no hits for Chontosh. A search for "Navy Cross" gives an August 7, 2005 article ("GLORY DAYS; Missing In Action: The War Heroes") wherein the author wonders why there is no "instantly recognizable war hero" today. I can't find the whole article, but I suspect "because your paper deems their stories not worth telling" isn't there. By the way, there have been 11 Navy Crosses awarded for OEF and OIF so far - three to Navy men (two SEALs and one to a corpsman) and eight to Marines. There have been three Distinguished Service Crosses, all to ARSOF members. |
And two Air Force Crosses, both to AFSOC personnel.
All the citations may be read here: http://www.homeofheroes.com/valor/02_wot/index.html |
There was a thread on this a while back. I recall that NDD heard he went to blade . . .
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I saw that and looked it up online. Didn't really fine anything on it, everyone of them were "military Driven" sites. I was really surprised on how that main stream News didn't report on this award. Well, at least I didn't find it anything till a USA Today on 3/30/2005. Don't remeber seeing it on the evening news. My Bag. |
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As of March 2006, the USMC had awarded 51 Silver Stars for OIF and at least 1 for OEF (OEF numbers have not been updated since April 2005). I have no idea about the Navy and Air Force statistics, but I know of a number of such awards, including several to NAVSOC and AFSOC personnel. There is at least one soldier who has been decorated for valor three times. 1LT Karl E. Gregory of 2-2 IN, 1st Infantry Division, has received the Silver Star Medal, the Soldier's Medal (for noncombat heroism) and the Bronze Star Medal with "V" Device. |
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