Details surrounding death of USN divers +1 year ago finally released under FOIA
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Green_Manelishi
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kwinter
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"That heroism will be honored in coming months, when the Navy posthumously awards Harris the Navy and Marine Corps Medal."
Sorry, but I don't see anything worth honoring. It wasn't valor or courage. It was stupidity. You don't become the second victim.
Sorry, but I don't see anything worth honoring. It wasn't valor or courage. It was stupidity. You don't become the second victim.
These men were serving their country and one put aside his own life trying to save another. What is it called then? Your commander gives you an order, you follow it. It's seems the surface crew is to blame not the divers. By the sounds of it neither could have made it to the surface.
Could you possibly be any more disrespectful to someone that gave his life in military service trying to save his buddy, teammate, and probably friend? If you do not understand the difference between being concerned with saving your own ass and valiantly and courageously putting yourself at risk, even to the point of losing your own life to save another, you probably will never understand. It is the difference between being a hero and being the other 99% of us. If I got to chose who I would have as my buddy/teammate in a life or death situation, it would be someone like Petty Officer Ryan Harris. It sure would not be you.
Appallingly horrid. How is it that only the one was court marshalled and he got to choose?
deedeediver
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Kwinter, I dont think you understand the honor and code of the Navy Spec warfare groups:.... No Man Left Behind. Both of those men believed in that, they died for that.
