At the Balmer Sun, Analysis: Wes Moore’s Bronze Star was a political rescue mission "Evidence suggests the mission was launched under a false premise."
Most veterans who were wrongly denied a military award do not get a three-star general to personally intervene for them.
They do not get direct access to the Secretary of the Army.
They do not get a U.S. senator from a state they don’t live in to sponsor the award.
They do not get a politically damaging controversy transformed into a retroactive military honor, almost without question, nearly 20 years later.
And they do not get it done from start to finish in seven days.
But Maryland Gov. Wes Moore did.
Spotlight on Maryland has learned that Moore’s pursuit of the Bronze Star medal in 2024 relied heavily on political favors, special access, inaccurate information about his Afghanistan deployment and involved the deliberate concealment of key facts regarding Moore’s end-of-deployment awards in 2006.
These revelations raise serious questions about the process used to obtain the Bronze Star presented to Moore in 2024 and whether it violated federal law.
Read the rest. I don't know enough about military procedure and customs to know how egregious this is, but I know plenty of people to ask.
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