A colonel received a Silver Star for actions related to the recovery of weapons in the desert.
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The claim departs from the passage: the post only says a colonel got a Silver Star, in a joking aside about equipment, and never says the award was for recovering weapons in the desert.
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… "Oh, nobody will find it here." We are 1100 blocks later. Yeah, traded them. I mean, uh, did the right thing with them. Yeah, yeah, it's really, really big of you to turn it was super nice of me. Did they give you a no, I didn't get a medal, but there was a colonel that got a Silver Star. I didn't get it finished. If you got a, um well, I mean, technically, you didn't get metal. You got, like, a heavy thing that we almost shipped home. Oh God, there were talks of shipping home a Humvee. …
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Context. The post's passage is a podcast aside about a colonel receiving a Silver Star, framed around Glocks, a Humvee and military paperwork; it does not describe the award's cause or mention weapons recovery in the desert.
Context. The Army Silver Star recipient list includes colonels (e.g., Daniel B. Allyn and Mark L. Garrell, Operation Iraqi Freedom), but the list gives no citation or reason for any award and does not tie any colonel to weapons recovery.[1]
Context. Other award citations in the sources involve colonels or lieutenant colonels in combat actions in Iraq, none involving recovery of weapons in the desert, so none refers to the colonel the post mentions.[2][3]
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3 sources: 1 primary, 2 not rated
- 1Army - Silver Star - Military Awards for Valorvalor.defense.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 2Gary Volesky - Hall of Valor: Medal of Honor, Silver Star, ...valor.militarytimes.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 3Scott E. Rutter - Home of Heroeshomeofheroes.com · not rated · cited for: context
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