Bronze Star Award for Power Points Not True.

 Now Get A Combat Medal For Power Point Presentations
        
 
Holding with the new philosophy that every kid gets a trophy on little league.  The defense dept. has now seen fit to bring that idea to the military.  The Bronze Star, the fifth highest award given to military combatants that exhibit valor.  Is now being presented to those military personnel that give power point presentations. Yes, the standing in front of audience is certainly dangerous. After all what if not everyone assembled in a well lit, air conditioned enclosure. Is not ready to accept what the presentor has in store.  Imagine if you will, that there is a heckler in the room. Or perhaps the next day an article in the newspaper will target him or her with a critical barb.  In the worst case senario a tomato could be thrown. Or worse yet, a cabbage. Yes, there can be no doubt it can get dicey.  The idea of someone having to bear the sweat that accumulates above their brow.  Or finding that the anti perspiration roll on, they applied in the morning leaves something to be desired.  Hands clammy with the anxiety of causing them to slip off the lap top keyboard is very real. 

A U.S. Air Force chaplain was one of those who had to deal with this dangerous predicament.  A fate worse than being blown up by an IUD.  Or a sniper bullet put squarely in between his eyes.  This was the conclusion of those awarding him the Bronze Star for facing the enemy. After all the possibility of PTS after the presentation has to always be considerd. 

The chaplin received this honored award for his presentation of how to deal with Islamic sensitivity training and how to dispose of Korans. This is ridiculous and brings political correctness to a new level of absurdity.  I quess we will now be giving out combat medals for valor in cleaning a latrine.  After all who can deny that putting your head so close to a toilet bowl can be dangerous. Indeed the threat of PTS is always on your mind.  So what is the big deal you may wonder.  You can dismiss it with the rational of the fact that the Noble Peace Prize is given to a President that had no credentials in initiating peace of any kind in any way shape or form.  It is truly sad when honored awards are given not for accomplishments.  Instead for ideology and political statements that suite the times and those awarding them.  It diminishes the value of the award and it's meaning. Not only to past recipients but for future ones as well.

Retraction
P.S. I received a letter from Lt. Col West, former congressman from Florida. The Col. has assured me that the reports on the awarding of the Bronze Star to Lt. Col John Trainer, a non denominational chaplin, were misleading at best.  I had previously deleted the published commentary I had written in response to Lt. Col West's letter to me.  I then decided to re- publish the commentary with this clarification. I further reccomend that all research this matter.