Does Murtha Desrve NAVY Award?
I don’t understand how the NAVY can award its highest civilian award to a man like Murtha after he accused marines of being murderers. This is a man with no honor and in my opinion a buffoon! ================================================== ========= March 26, 2009 Military.com|by Christian Lowe In one of his last moves before leaving office March 13, then-Navy Secretary Donald Winter quietly awarded 19-term Democratic congressman John Murtha (Pa.) with the service’s highest civilian honor. Citing Murtha’s “courageous leadership, vision, and loyalty to the men and women of the Department of the Navy,” Winter presented the influential chairman of the House Appropriations Committee’s defense panel with the Navy’s Distinguished Public Service Award, an honor bestowed in “those extraordinary cases where individuals have demonstrated exceptionally outstanding service of substantial and long term benefit to the Navy, Marine Corps, or the Department of the Navy as a whole,” a Murtha release
