« Removing All Doubt | Main | Victims »

February 12, 2007

MAJ Bruce Crandall, the Medal of Honor

In the better late than never category comes the news that Major Bruce Crandall will be awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the battle of LZ X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley. This battle was, of course, recently made famous to the general public due to its portrayal in the movie We Were Soldiers based on the excellent book We Were Soldiers Once, and Young. MAJ Crandall was a helicopter pilot, and during the course of the battle he flew sortie after sortie to LZ X-Ray to carry in supplies and carry out wounded soldiers, clearly meeting the Medal of Honor's criteria of going above and beyond the call of duty.

For those interested, the Army has a listing of all Medal of Honor citations, although it has not yet been updated with MAJ Crandall's citation.

Hat tip: Jules Crittenden.

Posted at February 12, 2007 04:23 PM

Andrew Olmsted

Comment policy

I apologize for only allowing authenticated commenters, but comment spam overwhelms the site if I don't use those measures to prevent it. I reserve the right to delete any comment, although generally comments will only be deleted due to use of profanity or personal attacks on people. I have no objection to vigorous argument, but when name-calling begins, I'm putting a stop to it. In the immortal words of Eugene Levy, "People, people, let's stop this before somebody says something untrue!" If you want to call people names, I recommend you get your own blog.

Trackback Pings

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://andrewolmsted.com/mt/pings.cgi/1667

Comments

A question, the linked story says the White House announced that Major Crandall will receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, is it typical that the WH gets to announce even though it's the Congressional Medal of Honor* (the link to the historical list seems to indicate that's the case).

*or, as so wonderfully put in The Rock, "the Congressional Medal of - Jesus!"

Posted by: Ugh6 [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 12, 2007 04:54 PM

Actually, MAJ (now LTC retired, actually) will receive the Medal of Honor. In my experience, the announcement has always been made by the White House, but I have no idea if that is typical or not.

Posted by: Andrew [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 12, 2007 05:16 PM

Joe Galloway, co-author of the book and movie, is retired, but he is still writing columns. And he is an angry man.

Posted by: Steve Jones [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 13, 2007 10:09 PM

Post a comment

Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out)

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)


Remember me?