Thread: Air Force Chaplain Awarded Bronze Star for PowerPoint on how to treat koran

Dumbing Down of Our Military.

By PAUL SWANSEN
Published: March 13, 2013 | 0 Comments

Bronze Star Medal; Decoration of the U.S. Military (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The dumbing down of our military, came front and center this week with the headline of, “Air Force Chaplain Awarded Bronze Star for PowerPoint on how to treat koran.”

Lt. Col. Jon Trainer, an Air National Guard chaplain from Springfield, Ohio is the proud recipient of the one of the military’s most prestigious awards. If your checking your service dress uniform, according to the United States Navy Bureau of Naval Personnel (BUPERS),

The Bronze Star Medal is an individual military award of the United States Armed Forces. It may be awarded for acts of heroism, acts of merit, or meritorious service in a combat zone. When awarded for acts of heroism, the medal is awarded with the “V” device.

The medal is sometimes referred to as the Bronze Star and is the fifth-highest combat decoration and the tenth highest U.S. military award in order of precedence.

Notable Bronze Star recipient’s include:

Lieutenant General Lewis Burwell “Chesty” Puller.

Charles Elwood “Chuck” Yeager a retired major general in the United States Air Force and noted test pilot.

Elmo Russell “Bud” Zumwalt, Jr., an American naval officer and the youngest man to serve as Chief of Naval Operations.

Admiral William James Crowe, Jr., a United States Navy Admiral who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.

Christopher Scott “Chris” Kyle (April 8, 1974 – February 2, 2013) was a United States Navy SEAL and is known as the most lethal sniper in American military history.

While Chaplain Trainer is certainly in lofty company with the bestowment of his award, the question still needs to be addressed as to the worthiness of the honor.

Air Force Chaplain Awarded Bronze Star for PowerPoint on how to treat koran


If this doesnt scare the living daylights out of you, then youre dead (or youve submitted — same thing). The book that inspires jihad — the war on the West and the countless dead.
This is surrender. Period.

Air Force Chaplain Awarded Bronze Star for PowerPoint Teaching Proper Sensitivity for the Koran By Patrick Brennan, NRO March 11, 2013 11:3

An Air Force chaplain has been awarded a Bronze Star for his service in crafting an especially good PowerPoint about how to treat Islamic religious materials with sensitivity, according to Ohio’s Dayton Daily News. After U.S. troops in Afghanistan accidentally burned copies of the Koran, sparking riots that took over 30 lives, Lieutenant Colonel Jon Trainer came to the rescue:

After the accidental burning last year of Qurans by U.S. troops in Afghanistan sparked deadly rioting, an Air National Guard chaplain from Springfield stepped in and potentially saved countless American lives.

For his effort, Lt. Col. Jon Trainer received the prestigious Bronze Star — a medal given for heroic or meritorious achievement in connection with operations against an armed enemy.

And he did it with a PowerPoint presentation. . . .

Within 48 hours, Trainer developed a PowerPoint presentation on the proper handling and disposal of Islamic religious material that was seen by every American — military and civilian alike — in Afghanistan. The presentation then was distributed to the U.S. for use in all pre-deployment training.

The piece explains that Trainer also helped teach service members just how wide the breadth of their sensitivity had to be, covering what constitutes Islamic religious material in the first place. ‘When a Muslim writes down even a few verses from the Quran on a piece of paper,’ he told the paper, ‘that immediately gets that same protected status.’

Trainer is a nondenominational Christian minister who has been in the Air Force for 17 years. He is also being recognized for his work running the Army’s suicide-prevention program, in which he’s trained more than 36,000 service members.

The Bronze Star is the U.S. military’s fifth most prestigious combat award, and can be awarded for acts of merit or valor in a combat zone (if the military deems it an act of heroism, the award is given with a ‘V’ device).

(Via Atlas Shrugs.)

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Air Force Chaplain Awarded Bronze Star for PowerPoint Teaching Proper Sensitivity for the Koran

Posted on March 12, 2013 by creeping

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! Any self-respecting chaplain would reject the award for that reason, right?


via Patrick Brennan – The Corner – National Review Online.

An Air Force chaplain has been awarded a Bronze Star for his service in crafting an especially good PowerPoint about how to treat Islamic religious materials with sensitivity, according to Ohio’s Dayton Daily News. After U.S. troops in Afghanistan accidentally burned copies of the Koran, sparking riots that took over 30 lives, Lieutenant Colonel Jon Trainer came to the rescue:

After the accidental burning last year of Qurans by U.S. troops in Afghanistan sparked deadly rioting, an Air National Guard chaplain from Springfield stepped in and potentially saved countless American lives.

For his effort, Lt. Col. Jon Trainer received the prestigious Bronze Star — a medal given for heroic or meritorious achievement in connection with operations against an armed enemy.
And he did it with a PowerPoint presentation. . . .

Within 48 hours, Trainer developed a PowerPoint presentation on the proper handling and disposal of Islamic religious material that was seen by every American — military and civilian alike — in Afghanistan. The presentation then was distributed to the U.S. for use in all pre-deployment training.

The piece explains that Trainer also helped teach service members just how wide the breadth of their sensitivity had to be, covering what constitutes Islamic religious material in the first place. “When a Muslim writes down even a few verses from the Quran on a piece of paper,” he told the paper, “that immediately gets that same protected status.”

Trainer is a nondenominational Christian minister who has been in the Air Force for 17 years. He is also being recognized for his work running the Army’s suicide-prevention program, in which he’s trained more than 36,000 service members.

The Bronze Star is the U.S. military’s fifth most prestigious combat award, and can be awarded for acts of merit or valor in a combat zone (if the military deems it an act of heroism, the award is given with a “V” device).

But soldiers attacked and murdered by an Islamic jihadi on a U.S. military base is not combat and does not warrant a Purple Heart. And here.

Update: Apparently, while it is ok for the Dayton Daily News to portray the award as a result of the Koran Powerpoint, it wasn’t the only reason and again rather than focusing on the extreme levels of dhimmitude in the U.S. military, folks are upset over the news getting out.
On Chaplain Trainer

The piece went on to describe how Trainer’s PowerPoint on proper handling of the Koran led to him receiving the Bronze Star. Patrick Brennan wrote apost linking to the Dayton story with a headline, “Air Force Chaplain Awarded Bronze Star for PowerPoint Teaching Proper Sensitivity for the Koran,” that spread around the web (Pat also mentioned Trainer’s work training personnel in a suicide prevention program). Lt. Col. Jon Trainer, a NRO reader, has been in touch and convinced me that this isn’t quite fair. He has explained that the Bronze Star was an end of tour award presented to him for meritorious service over the span of his deployment to Afghanistan, which obviously involved more than that PowerPoint. (This story gives a broader sense of his service during the tour.) So there wasn’t anything inaccurate in the Dayton story or Pat’s post, but they created a misimpression about the centrality of the PowerPoint to Trainer’s Bronze Star. I wanted to provide this fuller context and take the opportunity to salute Trainer for his service to our country.

The question is, why was the Koran PowerPoint made the centrality of the award and why is that people only get upset when it is brought to light? What we should really be asking is why the PowerPoint was needed in the first place and what exactly have we been doing in Afghanistan for twelve years and counting.

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