[djmcmath]

Maybe I'm a bit disenchanted. My room-mate was put up for a COM just recently, but was rejected because he's resigning. His chain of command pushed hard for it, and his peers helped write the nomination. Ouch. One of the other guys in my wardroom was a complete slacker, but attracted positive attention from the chain of command. For reasons that are beyond all of us who work with him, he managed to earn 3 personal awards (NAMs).

Maybe the military was better back then, and maybe I just have some particularly cynical views on military awards, but I'd give a little more weight (a little) to the words of the people a guy served with than to the awards in his record. I'm not saying W's a war hero, I'm just trying to put the data in perspective.


Dan