DoD medals website to begin this week

[frivilig]

DOD will unveil website to combat Stolen Valor this week
By Leo Shane III and Chris Carroll
Stars and Stripes
Published: July 23, 2012

http://www.stripes.com/dod-will-unveil- ... k-1.183792

[MrRackBuilder]

It's a good site, but it is still in its infancy stage. Right now all they have is Medal of Honor awardees and the Service Cross awardees covering the War on Terror. While it was launched pretty quick, it will be interesting to see how it grows. Are they only going to list the recipients or will they show the citation like the MilitaryTimes Hall of Valor?

I hope to see this site become the authority on US Valor awards, but we will have to wait and see.

[JB Floyd]

The Air Force Cross part of the data base will list award, full name, rank and war. There will be no further data included unless provisions are made for footnotes. I assume that the data bases for the DSC and Navy Cross will be of similar content.

This is not going to be the encyclopedia of awardees and their citations -- ever. Once the service crosses are done, the rest will be a project "in work" for the foreseeable future.