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Rob Dickerson, Army Veteran, Forced To Pay $21 C.O.D. For Purple Heart Medal

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Wow. This is unconscionable.

War comes with an incalculable human cost. And apparently a shipping fee of about $21.

Retired Sgt. Major Rob Dickerson says that's the price he was forced to pay when his Purple Heart -- the medal issued to soldiers wounded in action -- arrived at his door, C.O.D.

Instead of being awarded the military honor in a formal ceremony, the vet with 29 years in the service was handed his award, and a shipping invoice, by a FedEx deliveryman outside his Sioux Falls, S.D., home.

"Leaders need to pay attention and take care of soldiers," Dickerson told The Huffington Post. "This is a gross injustice.

Rob Dickerson, Army Veteran, Forced To Pay $21 C.O.D. For Purple Heart Medal
 
That makes me want to weep.
 
This is what happens when you create an out of control bureaucracy.
 
Why did they use Fed Ex?
 
Why did they use Fed Ex?

He could have gone to his unit and the award would been ordered through the system and issued to him free of charge.

I wonder why he didn't do that? I bet there's way more to this story than what we're being told.
 
He could have gone to his unit and the award would been ordered through the system and issued to him free of charge.

I wonder why he didn't do that? I bet there's way more to this story than what we're being told.

Perhaps you should actually read the article.
 
There is no excuse for treating a hero like this ever.

It really pisses me off that Obama can fly all over in a 474, bring a guy from Texas to make pizza for lunch at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars and his wife can spend a million dollars hair and beauty that, (doesn't heip BTW), and we treat a hero like this.
 
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An out of control government.

No doubt this has to be the fault of those on the left then? Why not just come out and say what you really meant instead of ***** footing?
 
Perhaps you should actually read the article.

I don't have to read the article to know, that if he had orders authorizing him to wear the award, he could have taken those orders to his unit and they would have issued him the decoration.
 
He could have gone to his unit and the award would been ordered through the system and issued to him free of charge.

I wonder why he didn't do that? I bet there's way more to this story than what we're being told.
from the article in the OP
A Purple Heart should have been easy to obtain. But because Dickerson was serving alongside Iraqi soldiers instead of American forces, no U.S. Army medic was able to issue him a Casualty Feeder Card, a document that "goes up the chain of command and notifies them of American casualties," he said.

"Being with Iraqi soldiers, I had no American medic with me -- and all of my Iraqi comrades with me were killed."​
 
Yhere is no excuse for treating a hero like this ever.

It really pisses me off that Obama can fly all over in a 474, bring a guy from Texas to make pizza for lunch at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars and his wife can spend a million dollars hair and beauty that, (doesn't heip BTW), and we treat a hero like this.

Good Lord. I can't even begin to think of how to respond to an inane statement such as this. For the love of all things pure, please turn down right wing radio. It will rot your brain.
 
from the article in the OP
A Purple Heart should have been easy to obtain. But because Dickerson was serving alongside Iraqi soldiers instead of American forces, no U.S. Army medic was able to issue him a Casualty Feeder Card, a document that "goes up the chain of command and notifies them of American casualties," he said.

"Being with Iraqi soldiers, I had no American medic with me -- and all of my Iraqi comrades with me were killed."​

I suggested that he actually read the article, but of course he knew everything. lol
 
Good Lord. I can't even begin to think of how to respond to an inane statement such as this. For the love of all things pure, please turn down right wing radio. It will rot your brain.

You're pissing up a rope, trying to reason with some.
 
Good Lord. I can't even begin to think of how to respond to an inane statement such as this. For the love of all things pure, please turn down right wing radio. It will rot your brain.

Its a classic sign of Obama derangements syndrome.
 
from the article in the OP
A Purple Heart should have been easy to obtain. But because Dickerson was serving alongside Iraqi soldiers instead of American forces, no U.S. Army medic was able to issue him a Casualty Feeder Card, a document that "goes up the chain of command and notifies them of American casualties," he said.

"Being with Iraqi soldiers, I had no American medic with me -- and all of my Iraqi comrades with me were killed."​

IOW, there may have been no one to verify that he was wounded by direct enemy action?

Believe it, or not, that isn't all that outrageous.
 
It's all because he's black, huh?

Yeah pretty much.

I hate black people so much I wished they were still being gunned down by white supremacists in South Africa...

Oh wait thats not me.
 
IOW, there may have been no one to verify that he was wounded by direct enemy action?

Believe it, or not, that isn't all that outrageous.

Outrageous or not, NOTHING justifies him having to pay that C.O.D.
 
Yeah pretty much.

I hate black people so much I wished they were still being gunned down by white supremacists in South Africa...

Oh wait thats not me.

Who said that?
 
Outrageous or not, NOTHING justifies him having to pay that C.O.D.

Well, if he didn't have the gumption to go get the award, then he did this to himself. Hell, he's a CSM, he should know how the system works.

You didn't think the bureaucrats were going to pay for it, did you?
 
IOW, there may have been no one to verify that he was wounded by direct enemy action?

Believe it, or not, that isn't all that outrageous.

And to think it was right there in the article that you didn't need to read. Imagine that?
 
Well, if he didn't have the gumption to go get the award, then he did this to himself. Hell, he's a CSM, he should know how the system works.

You didn't think the bureaucrats were going to pay for it, did you?

I think this will facilitate changes to the policy. It's a national embarrassment. One thing I know about bureaucrats is they don't suffer embarrassment well.
 
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