By Jim Tice - Staff writer
Posted : Sunday Aug 1, 2010 10:37:38 EDT
A June surge of awards and decorations for redeploying soldiers in Iraq has pushed the combined medal count for the Middle East wars past 835,000, the third largest total in Army history.
The service’s most recent accounting of awards shows 597 medals were awarded for Afghanistan service in June, and 11,999 for Iraq.
The Afghanistan total is about half as large as the monthly average for that nearly 10-year war, while the monthly total for Iraq is unusually large, about one-third larger than normal.
The Army began awarding medals for Afghanistan and other Operation Enduring Freedom locations in December 2001. As of early July, the count was 154,177.
The Operation Iraqi Freedom medal count began in March 2003 and now stands at 681,351read more here
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