You might be correct, but the army says you are incorrect.

According to an Army memo, "It has been a long-standing and unwritten policy
of the Army that no single soldier or veteran is ever named officially as
the most decorated person in a conflict or in a particular period of time."
The Army did not even keep a central medal database until the mid-1970s. It
has never searched through its millions of individual records to find top
medal winners.






"thunder" wrote in message
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On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:35:29 +0000, Taco Heaven wrote:

DSK,

I made the statement that Hack's main purpose in his web site was self
promotion in an effort to sell books, his magazine and newspaper columns,
and his lecture circuit. The fact that he promotes himself as "America's
most decorated living soldier" when the US Army has no idea who is the
most decorated soldier, does show that he is more interested in self
promotion than the truth.

Of course the Army knows who has the most decorations. They don't use the
term "most decorated" because they don't want to get into comparing
decorations. Is the Medal of Honor worth two Silver Stars, three ...?