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FNG
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| I'm a reporter doing a story on a veteran of the 82nd Airborne who served in OEF and OIF and has struggled with PTSD since her return. I'm trying to confirm that she received the Bronze Star Medal for her service in Afghanistan and I'm having a bit of trouble. I'd especially like to find out the circumstances that lead to her award. Her name is Jamelia Carter and I know she was in Afghanistan in Dec. 2002. I think she left the service in late 2003 or early 2004. Anyone have any advice? You can email me privately at the Miami Herald at snesmith@miamiherald.com and I'll also come back if someone wants to post here. Thanks
Susannah Nesmith
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Trooper
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I am suspicious. Could this reporter not find some official source for said information? Of course, I think of the news media as allies of the terrorists.
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Trooper
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Read you lima charlie Hippo and agree
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Paratrooper
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Could this reporter read the site instructions and do a proper intro before posting in open forums?
RJ - SCOUTS OUT! 
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Trooper
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| Understand you brother Recon, this reporter has filled out the info and it is clear that she does want to assist. But I can ( to a point ) understand that she is not aware of reporting in to the site as most of us troopers know how to do. Brother i am on this , if I smell anything a lil fishy....I will be sure to let you huys know. Further I have emailed this reporter and she has explained to me whatisgoing on, if the information I have requested comes through.....then I have problem assisting a fellow trooper...If that is what she is trying to do.
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Trooper
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I still wonder why said reporter did not ask the vet for the documentation. And if lost it can be reissued.
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82nd_Raider
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Isn't this info available in a public record somwhere?
All the way, sir!!! 
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FNG
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| I understand some of your concerns. The story is about veterans returning with PTSD. Unfortunately, information on Bronze Star Medals is not publicly available. As a post on this site notes, the veterans information centers in St. Louis will provide information on eligibility for medals, but not the actual medals received. And the 82nd Airborne only keeps information about troopers for 90 days after their service ends. In spite of those limitations, I want my story to reflect exactly how valiant Jamelia was in Afghanistan. For that, I need to confirm the Bronze Star and if I can, find out more about the circumstances of the award. I'm sorry that so many in the military feel like the press is the enemy. I knew I'd face that when I posted. But I've been to Iraq and worked in Haiti, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, New Orleans and Bosnia and the servicemen and women that I've met never treated me that way in person. I'm not a military reporter but as a reporter who sometimes gets dispatched to really screwed up places, I run into the military. And in those places, an American soldier is often a really welcome sight because I do not work armed and I'm very aware that I'm often safer when one of y'all, or many of y'all, are around. The arrival of the Marines after two weeks of pure and very dangerous chaos in Haiti in 2004, and the arrival of the National Guard and the 82nd Airborne, after almost that long of chaos in New Orleans after Katrina, was very good news to me. I've also had minor surgery at Camp McGovern in Bosnia, and I'll never forget the doctors and medics who helped me when I was in a good bit of pain, but no real danger. They could have told me to hop a plane to Germany or risk it with the local doctors, but they were too compassionate to do that. Anyway, that's a long way of saying, I'm probably not as bad as you think, and there is a good reason why I'm asking for help on this one. I think I've found someone, though this site, who might be able to help me. I hope so.
Susannah Nesmith
Miami Herald
snesmith@miamiherald.com
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