Paul Ray Smith: Debating The Medal Of Honor
Abstract
One of the highest Military award is the Medal of Honor. The main factor as to why the medal is awarded is due to the beyond call of duty and also the valor acts for an individual. The U.S president is the one held responsible for crowning the recipients in name of the U.S Congress . The medal recipients or rather those engaged in the honor medal can be termed to be afforded in a number of benefits due to the results awards. This inspiring and colorful medal has a history behind it which in the employed standards today, has culminated because of the respected honor awarded. The Medal of Honor was first presented in the year 1862 and was first awarded during the American Civil War. The judging provisions where a Soldier is eligible …show more content…
Sergeant First Class Paul Ray Smith was born in September 24, 1969 in El Paso Texas and joined the U.S Army in 1989 soon after graduating from Tampa Bay high school and received Engineer training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Sergeant First Class Paul R. Smith was the first Soldier to win the Medal of Honor during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The Medal was later presented to his family precisely to his 11 years old son David, in the white house by the then serving president George W. Bush in 2005 two years after his death, “We count ourselves blessed to have soldiers like Sergeant Smith, who put their lives on the line to advance the cause of freedom and protect the American people (President George W. Bush, 2005). Through the acts of intrepidity and gallantry above and beyond the call of duty in action with an armed enemy near Baghdad International Airport on April 4, 2003, it all made Sergeant First Class Paul R. Smith be distinguished among his comrades. On that fateful day, he was involved in a fire fight in an area for holding criminals as explained by Reese, (2008). It is while at the fight that his task force was attacked mercilessly by a large enemy force, about 100 enemy Soldiers to be more
One of the highest Military award is the Medal of Honor. The main factor as to why the medal is awarded is due to the beyond call of duty and also the valor acts for an individual. The U.S president is the one held responsible for crowning the recipients in name of the U.S Congress . The medal recipients or rather those engaged in the honor medal can be termed to be afforded in a number of benefits due to the results awards. This inspiring and colorful medal has a history behind it which in the employed standards today, has culminated because of the respected honor awarded. The Medal of Honor was first presented in the year 1862 and was first awarded during the American Civil War. The judging provisions where a Soldier is eligible …show more content…
Sergeant First Class Paul Ray Smith was born in September 24, 1969 in El Paso Texas and joined the U.S Army in 1989 soon after graduating from Tampa Bay high school and received Engineer training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Sergeant First Class Paul R. Smith was the first Soldier to win the Medal of Honor during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The Medal was later presented to his family precisely to his 11 years old son David, in the white house by the then serving president George W. Bush in 2005 two years after his death, “We count ourselves blessed to have soldiers like Sergeant Smith, who put their lives on the line to advance the cause of freedom and protect the American people (President George W. Bush, 2005). Through the acts of intrepidity and gallantry above and beyond the call of duty in action with an armed enemy near Baghdad International Airport on April 4, 2003, it all made Sergeant First Class Paul R. Smith be distinguished among his comrades. On that fateful day, he was involved in a fire fight in an area for holding criminals as explained by Reese, (2008). It is while at the fight that his task force was attacked mercilessly by a large enemy force, about 100 enemy Soldiers to be more