There’s an e-mail going around about a USMC Captain named Brian Chontosh and his award of the Navy Cross.
For you non-Marines and Navy types, the Navy Cross is the medal after the MOH.
The e-mail is real and so is the sentiment expressed in it … namely that the media — with all its bullshit spewing of “we support our troops, we’re only telling the real story” — wouldn’t know objective reporting if it kissed them on the ass.
Chontosh’s story is pretty wild and I dug into Google to research it. While it does come up on occasion in some print media, there is NO mention of it by any “major” wire service or television “news” serevice; I went back 25 search pages and found a reference to him (but nothing about the action) by PBS on page 11, by FOX on page 12 (also with nothing about his heroics).
For the record: Chontosh will be 32 in May and hails from Rochester, NY. He received the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism while serving as Combined Anti-Armor Platoon Commander, Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom March 25, 2003 (he received the medal in May 2004).
Semper Fi, Captain Chontosh.
And to the lying-by-omission members of the Fourth Estate: Go to hell.
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