Dakota Meyer will be awarded the Medal of Honor on September 15th. He is the first living Marine to be honored in this war.

Semper Fi

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/08/marine-to-receive-medal-of-honor-in-september-.html

Unbelievable how there have been only 3 living recipients and 2 have been recently.

Edit: I must have misread that. Ther def has to be more living recipients than 3. Has anyone ever seen the list of benefits and privileges to having one. It's a pretty good deal, and much deserving.

like_that;895771 wrote: Has anyone ever seen the list of benefits and privileges to having one. It's a pretty good deal, and much deserving.

"The first is more money. The Department of Veterans Affairs gives them a $1,194 monthly pension. Plus there is a 10 percent increase in their retirement pay, provided it doesn't exceed the maximum allowed by law.

The recipients also get to fly on military aircraft at no cost, if there is space available, and they and their families can use military recreation facilities like pools, bowling allies and golf courses.

Recipients are also invited to all presidential inaugurations and the inauguration balls.

There are also less formal benefits.
For example, many military bases set aside a special parking space for Medal of Honor winners. There is an informal tradition that regardless of a service member's rank, even the top officers in the military salute them, rather than vice versa. And many states, including California, Iowa and Wisconsin, have special license plates that only a Medal of Honor recipient can put on his car, and some of those states waive the usual fees.

Each Medal of Honor recipient's child, if they qualify, can go to a military academy without having to worry about the quota for his or her state.

Finally, upon their death, a Medal of Honor recipient's grave is marked with a special headstone that bears the Medal of Honor symbol and special gold lettering to denote that service member's special status."

A few recent ones have been living.

A few Navy SEALs have received the MoH.
Michael Monsoor jumped onto a grenade and saved a number of his fellow Team guys.
Michael Murphy was awarded the MoH for his actions in Afghanistan. Much of his story can be read in the book Lone Survivor.

GoChiefs;895928 wrote:"The first is more money. The Department of Veterans Affairs gives them a $1,194 monthly pension. Plus there is a 10 percent increase in their retirement pay, provided it doesn't exceed the maximum allowed by law.

The recipients also get to fly on military aircraft at no cost, if there is space available, and they and their families can use military recreation facilities like pools, bowling allies and golf courses.

Recipients are also invited to all presidential inaugurations and the inauguration balls.

There are also less formal benefits.
For example, many military bases set aside a special parking space for Medal of Honor winners. There is an informal tradition that regardless of a service member's rank, even the top officers in the military salute them, rather than vice versa. And many states, including California, Iowa and Wisconsin, have special license plates that only a Medal of Honor recipient can put on his car, and some of those states waive the usual fees.

Each Medal of Honor recipient's child, if they qualify, can go to a military academy without having to worry about the quota for his or her state.

Finally, upon their death, a Medal of Honor recipient's grave is marked with a special headstone that bears the Medal of Honor symbol and special gold lettering to denote that service member's special status."

The one that stands out to me is the children can attend any academy without the quota.

thavoice;896085 wrote:A few recent ones have been living.

A few Navy SEALs have received the MoH.
Michael Monsoor jumped onto a grenade and saved a number of his fellow Team guys.
Michael Murphy was awarded the MoH for his actions in Afghanistan. Much of his story can be read in the book Lone Survivor.

Cool now back to topic on hand about this young Marine.

My bad. Didnt mean to take any thunder away from him.

The level of sacrifice and courage that it takes is just unbelievable. What is the saying.......bravery is fear holding on for one more second?

WHat a tremendous young marine.



As an FYI.....I hope this gets alot of good comments and thoughts, but from experience in posting similiar stuff like this in the past most people dont take the time comment. It is like too many people only care or care to comment when a servicemember does something wrong.


Semper Fi. and Gods speed to all those soldiers around the world doing their jobs.

I will be flying to 29 Palms next week to be one of the Guests for his flag folding. Something 29 Palms always takes great pride in. Semper Fi.

Tiger2003;896149 wrote:Cool now back to topic on hand about this young Marine.

Smh.

like_that;896110 wrote:The one that stands out to me is the children can attend any academy without the quota.

Agreed, that is also the one that caught my attention the most. I wasn't aware of all the benefits until you mentioned it. Decided to look it up. Glad to see the medal actually means something other than "hey look, he got a medal".

*Not that that would be a bad thing. Just sayin'.*

Well deserved. A true credit to the Corps.

thavoice;896085 wrote:A few recent ones have been living.

A few Navy SEALs have received the MoH.
Michael Monsoor jumped onto a grenade and saved a number of his fellow Team guys.
Michael Murphy was awarded the MoH for his actions in Afghanistan. Much of his story can be read in the book Lone Survivor.

I'd like to hear more about these guys. Much deserved.

Tiger2003;896149 wrote:Cool now back to topic on hand about this young Marine.

Stop being pretentious.

lhslep134;896402 wrote:Stop being pretentious.

Yah you are a fucking idiot. Im being pretentious because I said cool now back to this young Marine. GTFO.

Sorry I have alot of respect for this Marine and I created this thread about him. Do I respect those two Navy Seals yes but this thread is about this Marine.

Tiger2003;896160 wrote:I will be flying to 29 Palms next week to be one of the Guests for his flag folding. Something 29 Palms always takes great pride in. Semper Fi.

This post was clearly about you (but, but I thought this thread was about him...)

Stop being pretentious.

Congrats to the marine being honored.

lhslep134;896470 wrote:This post was clearly about you (but, but I thought this thread was about him...)

Stop being pretentious.

Congrats to the marine being honored.

Yah I did post that because I did alot of training with him. I am not trying to impress anyone. All I fucking stated was I'll be attending the ceremony as a guest. I made a simple statement about attending his ceremony because I know him.

Tiger2003;896442 wrote:Yah you are a fucking idiot. Im being pretentious because I said cool now back to this young Marine. GTFO.

Sorry I have alot of respect for this Marine and I created this thread about him. Do I respect those two Navy Seals yes but this thread is about this Marine.

Quit being a dick and talk more about the 2 Navy Seals.

Tiger2003;896149 wrote:Cool now back to topic on hand about this young Marine.

SMH

-Society-;896497 wrote:Quit being a dick and talk more about the 2 Navy Seals.

They got there award a couple of years ago. This is a current event.

Terry_Tate;896498 wrote:SMH

WTF are you SMH about?

Tiger flying off the handle in a thread about marines, shocker lol.

Congratulations to this marine though

Because like you said this thread is about a Marine not the Seals.

Yes its about this marine. What he did for his country is a very very great thing and nobody is trying to deny that. All someone said is that recently theres been a few living recipients of the MOH. Not trying to take anything away from the marine, or diminishing what he did, and immediately become defensive for no reason at all lol

and honestly, how many threads in the OC stay EXACTLY on topic?

Tiger2003;896510 wrote:Because like you said this thread is about a Marine not the Seals.

Lets face it, THATS what u got pissed about. Someone mentioned the SEALS in a Marine thread.

GoChiefs;896512 wrote:Lets face it, THATS what u got pissed about. Someone mentioned the SEALS in a Marine thread.

Yes I did. Because this thread was about this Marine.