Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Honors ‘True Heroes’
Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Honors ‘True Heroes’
By Claudette Roulo
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4, 2012 – The vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff presented six service members with the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs’ Grateful Nation Award yesterday.
The honorees came from each of the five branches of the armed forces and U.S. Special Operations Command.
Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Honors ‘True Heroes’
By Claudette Roulo
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4, 2012 – The vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff presented six service members with the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs’ Grateful Nation Award yesterday.
The honorees came from each of the five branches of the armed forces and U.S. Special Operations Command.
Navy Adm. James A. Winnefeld Jr. said the service members are “true heroes, representing the hundreds of thousands of America’s sons and daughters who are out there tonight wearing the cloth of our nation.”
“And tonight, somewhere around the world, men and women of that military are redeploying,” the admiral said. “They’re coming home to people who understand the price of freedom and want to give back to those who have sacrificed so much to preserve it.”