Pentagon to Start Awarding Medals for Drone Strikes

[itshappening]

The Defense Department is reportedly inventing a new medal designed to reward soliders who fight battles from the safety of their computer consoles. The Associated Press says the Pentagon is creating a new ribbon, called the Distinguished Warfare Medal that will be given for "extra achievement" related to a military operation. That would include drone pilots operating unmanned planes from halfway around the world, or even hackers who launch a successful cyberattack on an enemy. Unlike all other combat-related medals, this would be the first one that you can be awarded without actually putting your life online.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/nati...-medals-drone-strokes-and-cyberattacks/62104/

 

[MRK]

Big deal, I won the Counterstrike CAL championships back in '99. These guys only know how to kill unarmed, unaccused 16 year old Americans.

 

[ronpaulfollower999]

The Call of Duty generation.

 

[Spikender]

Play a cool little "simulation", kill some "terrorists", cause some "collateral damage", and get a cool little medal.

Looks like a win-win situation to me. Let's crack open a casket of cider and celebrate.

 

[kcchiefs6465]

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

The Call of Duty generation.

Yes, I can imagine their training technical schools consist of playing every version of; Call of Duty, HALO, Command and Conquer: RED ALERT, Medal of Honor, and Counterstrike games.

 

[Spikender]

Yes, I can imagine their training technical schools consist of playing every version of; Call of Duty, HALO, Command and Conquer: RED ALERT, Medal of Honor, and Counterstrike games.

Play some "games", kill some "enemy combatants", get some shiny medals; sounds like every schoolboy's dream!

 

[itshappening]

I miss counterstrike, is it still going? what happened to it?

 

[CyberTootie]

Sweet, tangible items for "achievements!"

 

[Spikender]

I miss counterstrike, is it still going? what happened to it?

Yep, Counterstrike is still going strong. Tens of thousands of people still play it. They're all waiting to kill you if you want to come back.

 

[MRK]

I miss counterstrike, is it still going? what happened to it?

Yep, it's still going. Counterstrike has no centralized gaming servers, so you can still connect to a long list of independent servers with many customized mods.

 

[itshappening]

Yep, it's still going. Counterstrike has no centralized gaming servers, so you can still connect to a long list of independent servers with many customized mods.

The last time I played it (few years ago) it took ages to download all the sounds and stuff they package on those servers

I think I got my money's worth out of Half-life 2 though, considering all the free mods and the amount of time I played CS

 

[Pericles]

YGBSM Last time I checked, the Army had about 65 medals and ribbons, of which some 25 were for doing something in a war. You would think an AAM or a green hornet would do ....

 

[sailingaway]

Unbelievable.

"Game of Drones -- you have achieve Prestige Status!! Level Up!!"

 

[amonasro]

Yep, it's still going. Counterstrike has no centralized gaming servers, so you can still connect to a long list of independent servers with many customized mods.

Nice to know. I used to play in college quite a bit. I should fire it up one of these days.

 

[mad cow]

And a Purple Heart for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

 

[Aeroneous]

This thread topic is skewed. Plenty of people in various non-combat MOSs/AFSCs/Rates have HUGE impacts on combat operations. There is a combat medal to award those who see combat, but no medal specifically designed for combat impact from non-combat positions. There have always been other catch-all medals for this, such as Air Force/Army/Navy Achievement/Commendation Medals, but nothing this specific. This medal can include so many different career fields... it's really misleading to just pinpoint drone operations.

Also, drone operators have been receiving Aerial Achievement Medals for years now. The concept is nothing new.

 

[awake]

Trinkets to keep'em killing. Shiny things really do occupy the shallow mind.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

they shall make the empire happy , hey its just a "JOB" ,for lazy fucks who cant go learn a real skill besides killing people.

 

[Aeroneous]

they shall make the empire happy , hey its just a "JOB" ,for lazy fucks who cant go learn a real skill besides killing people.

Come on man.. the hatred and arrogance on this forum toward specific groups of people is getting old.

Lazy fucks? Right. Because you have got to be lazy as hell to through basic training and over half a year of 12 hour training days to earn the 1U0X1 AFSC. No real skill? So because they don't go into a job that you hold in high regard, there's no skill involved? C4ISR requires plenty of skills, high qualifications, and experience. Before I separated I was selected to go into this career field, and it's no damn cake walk. These people are not in harm's way, but they work long ass hours in remote parts of the country on random rotating schedules that make normal life nearly impossible. I looked at doing it because it is the cutting edge of aviation technology, and I thought it would be fun. My political views shifted and I decided to cancel my retraining and separate from the military. Most people that go into this don't go into it because they want to kill people from the safety of an arm chair. I'm sick and tired of people making RPA Sensor Operators and Pilots out to be some kind of sick fucking terrorists. Nobody is signing up to do this job because they're hell bent on murder and destruction. 99.9% of what you do in either of these positions is pure recon, and it is VERY RARE that you will actually be involved with delivery or ordinance.

You all need to get off your moral high horses and quit judging people who you've never even had the slightest damn connection to.