Look at this list of Military Medals that were awarded to one man:
- Defense Distinguished Service Medal w/ 1 oak leaf cluster
- Silver Star Defense Superior Service Medal Bronze Star w/ 1 award star & valor device Purple Heart w/ 1 award star
- Defense Meritorious Service Medal Meritorious Service Medal Army Commendation Medal Navy & Marine Corps Achievement Medal
- Combat Action Ribbon Navy Presidential Unit Citation Navy Unit Commendation Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal
- National Defense Service Medal w/ 1 service star Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal Vietnam Service Medal w/ 5 service stars Southwest Asia Service Medal w/ 2 service stars
- Humanitarian Service Medal Navy Sea Service Deployment Ribbon Arctic Service Ribbon Vietnam Gallantry Cross w/ 2 silver stars
- Vietnam Armed Forces Honor Medal Vietnam Gallantry Cross unit citation Vietnam Campaign Medal Kuwait Liberation Medal (Saudi Arabia)
Now, look at his background:
The son of Irish immigrants he is one of seven children. He graduated with a B.A. degree in English from Boston College in June 1962. After graduation, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps.
He holds an M.S. degree from Georgetown University in Government. His professional military education includes the Amphibious Warfare School, Naval Command and Staff College, and National War College.
He served in various command positions ranging from company commander to brigade commander in both the Atlantic and Pacific theater of operations.
His combat tours include duty in Vietnam and Desert Shield/Desert Storm.
His staff positions included duties as regimental, division, and service headquarters staff officer as well as joint duty with the United States Army, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the U.S. Atlantic Command.
Prior to assuming his final duties as Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic and Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Command on October 31, 1994, he served as Director for Operations, J-3, Joint Staff, Washington, D.C. He retired from the Marine Corps on September 24, 1997.
In 1998, he joined Bechtel International as a Senior Vice President.
And this amazing general officer is TODAY being called CRAZY.
Has his career EVER shown anything but dedication, honor and integrity? What would cause an entire nation (and European press) to call him crazy?
Here it is: His recent comments at the Capitol on gays in the military -and the deaths he believes that were caused because of the homosexual soldiers' behaviors while manning a post that was over-run and the soldiers were butchered.
Gen. Sheehan was the Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic as well as the Commander in Chief, US Atlantic Command. He knows stuff...he did stuff...at the highest levels in Europe.
Could he know something that Dutch politicians and Dutch press do not wish the world to know?
Truth never fears investigation - what if there's something truthful to what Gen. Sheehan is stating "on the record"?
Den
PS: This is what's being said of him in European press via AP, TODAY:
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By MIKE CORDER
Associated Press Writer
March 19th, 2010
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- The Dutch prime minister Friday denounced as "irresponsible" a claim by a retired U.S. general that gay Dutch soldiers were partly to blame for allowing Europe's worst massacre since World War II.
Dutch officials, from the Cabinet to the military, were outraged by retired Gen. John Sheehan's remarks at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.
Sheehan claimed that Dutch military leaders had called the presence of gay soldiers in the army "part of the problem" that allowed Serb forces to overrun the Srebrenica enclave in Bosnia in July 1995 and kill some 8,000 Muslim men.
Dutch troops were serving in the undermanned U.N. peacekeeping force in Srebrenica when they were overrun by heavily armed Serb forces, who went on to turn the surrounding countryside into killing fields littered with mass graves.
Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende called Sheehan's comments irresponsible and said at his weekly news conference that "these remarks should never have been made."
"Toward Dutch troops - homosexual or heterosexual - it is way off the mark to talk like that about people and the work they do under very difficult circumstances," he said.
Sheehan, a former NATO commander who retired from the military 1997, was speaking in opposition to a proposal to allow gays to serve openly in the U.S. military.
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