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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Some veterans and active duty troops are upset with the Pentagon over a new military medal. It's called the Distinguished Warfare Medal and it's set to be awarded to some drone pilots and other cyber warfare experts who've never actually set foot on a battlefield. The new medal, still months away from being awarded, is higher than the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. A spoof of the medal appeared on a Facebook page called the Duffel Blog.
"To pin something on a guy's chest that ranks higher than the Purple Heart like you mentioned for sitting in an air conditioned trailer playing with a joystick doesn't sit well with me," says retired Air Force Lt. Col. Dan Hampton.
5 veterans now serving in Congress are introducing a bill that would prohibit the Defense Department from making the medal equal or higher to the Purple Heart.
"To pin something on a guy's chest that ranks higher than the Purple Heart like you mentioned for sitting in an air conditioned trailer playing with a joystick doesn't sit well with me," says retired Air Force Lt. Col. Dan Hampton.
5 veterans now serving in Congress are introducing a bill that would prohibit the Defense Department from making the medal equal or higher to the Purple Heart.
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LOUISVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Blount (blunt) County sheriff's office says preliminary results of autopsies on the bodies of a couple found dead in their home in Louisville (LEW'-ihs-vil) show their deaths are consistent with murder-suicide.
Marian O'Briant said in an email that it appears 54-year-old Steven Adkins shot 53-year-old Rebecca Adkins, then shot himself.
O'Briant said a family member found the bodies Sunday night. It wasn't clear how long they had been dead.
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