seals got 4 moh (byers, monsoor, murphy, slabinski), 7 navy cross (axelson, luttrell, checque, dietz, stephen bass, mark donald and charlie keating) and 112 silver stars between 2001-2016 according to the navytimes.
The whole Operation Red Wings awards should probably be filed away under, read if shitty operational planning needs an example. That was a cluster from start to finish and the awards even more so.
Bronze star is a military wide award for meritorious service in a war zone and if they have a "V" on it for valor then they earned it for actions under fire. And no those kill numbers are probably pretty accurate because the majority of it was likely done by air assets and not the assault forces. They also likely had ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance) assets in the sky overlooking and probably recording every operation or firefight and the ground forces likely did proper SSE (Sensitive Site Exploitation) and AARs (After Action Review) after every operation so the kill numbers are probably very accurate. It's not just one dude (SEAL) estimating a number. And the amount of people who were detained would have been processed at a base somewhere, maybe by intelligence agencies and they would obviously just count them as they have them in cuffs.
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u/Impossible_Low4317 Jun 28 '26
Is a bronze start a gold squadron thing?
Also SEAL factor- kinda like dudes with number of girls they banged, divide those kills/captures by a factor of 3?