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IIRC, Mansoor did not leap on a grenade.
He took his helmet off and covered the grenade with it. In fact, if he had not laid on top of the K pot, thus creating a BIG blunt trauma to his chest, he might have survived. Rumor was, he had already asked his buddies if they thought that technique would work, so he had done some thinking on it.
There is no rhyme or reason to why some awards are different than others. IMHNSO, part of it is what happened, part is who it was, part is who submits it, and another portion is who approves it. It is also hard to compare actions, regardless of how similar they may seem to be.
There is no laundry list of actions for any particular award. A Silver Star in one instance may not have warranted an ARCOM with a V Device in another. And the Civil War MoHs awards are mostly bogus. It was the only valor award the military had at that point.
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