05-19-2010, 09:33
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Originally Posted by ReefBlue
The article says 3,447 medals have been issued with 1,500 of them being for the Civil War. So if you remove those 1500, you have 1900 of them for all the rest of all of our wars combined, I'd bet that, statistically, 6 in 9 years, with the amount of people who fight wars now as opposed to how many fought in wars prior, that is probably not far off.
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I disagree. It is not a numbers game. You can't say X many MOHs are awarded by average per conflict. There were 55 during the 2 year Boxer Rebellion.
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