Herbert was subjected to a smear campaign because he tried to expose war crimes and other problems, was denied Command and General Staff School and basically squeezed out of the Army. The same thing happened to Hugh Thompson, the pilot hero of MyLai. Current scholarship has found that Herbert understated the problem.
Korea took the Army-and everybody else by surprise, hence it had a WWII look to it-for shame.
There was the attempt to establish the "Distinguished Warfare Medal"-which would have ranked ahead of the Bronze Star-for drone pilots and people seeing "combat" on a computer screen from thousands of miles away. That led to a great hue and a cry and was quickly shot down, one critic stated the system was already overloaded with non-valor awards.
From WWI:
The captain got the Purple Heart, Parlez-Vous
The captain got the Purple Heart, Parlez-Vous
The captain the Purple Heart
He tore his pants on a laundry cart
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The general got the Croix de Guerre, Parlez-Vous
The general got the Croix de Guerre, Parlez-Vous
The general got the Croix de Guerre
The son of a gun was never there
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