DOD wants to lift ban on more than one Medal Of Honor

DoD proposes lifting Medal of Honor limit
May. 16, 2013
Army Times
By Rick Maze
Staff writer

The Defense Department wants to repeal a decades-old law restricting a service member to receiving only one Medal of Honor, saying the “V” device added for subsequent awards seems too little for someone who has performed such a valorous act.

Criteria for the nation’s highest award for valor would not change, and double awards would remain rare.

Of 3,465 Medals of Honor, only 19 people have received two awards, all in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

DoD’s request to allow medals, not V devices, for subsequent awards is included in a package of proposed legislation sent to Congress on April 26, and introduced as draft legislation on May 14 by Rep. Buck McKeon, R-Calif., the House Armed Services Committee chairman.

The committee will use the DoD package as the basis for the 2014 defense authorization bill that armed services subcommittees will begin writing next week.
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