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CMV: Britt Slabinski, who yesterday recieved the US medal of honor, showed bad and irresponsible judgement.

Yesterday, on the 24th of May, former US Navy Seal Britt Slabinski recieved the medal of honor for his actions during the battle of Thakur Ghar. At one point, one man, Roberts, fell out of a helicopter. At that point Slabinski had to make the call whether to escape with the rest of his team to relative safety and wait for reinforcements, or to go and rescue Roberts, who may or may not have been still alive. In an act of apparent heroism, they chose to fight while clearly outmanned and outgunned. This action cost the lives of multiple of his teammates. Roberts could not be saved either. The action had no tactical or strategical value. It's only value is as a propaganda opportunity which is what we are currently seeing.
The way I view it, what Slabinski did is brave. You have to be brave to run into a hail of bullets. But braver would be to not act as a warrior but as a commander, to take actual responsibility for his remaining team. You can be both brave and stupid, and these are the qualifications that should be applied to Slabinski. If that is what the medal should signify, courage with utter disregard for consequences or reason, then the award is warranted. If not, then this is both a propaganda effort and a debasement of the medal.
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> no tactical or strategic value.

Whether dead or alive Roberts would be a significant asset to the enemy.  If he were still alive he could be used to film propaganda videos and employed in bargaining strategies by the enemy.  He would probably be tortured with a significant risk that they might extract important information from him.

Even if dead his remains could be used as to bargain with the US and photos/video of a dead American serviceman have significant propaganda value.

Early on in the Afghan conflict the story of a Navy Seal being abandoned to his fate on a mountain top and being tortured/desecrated by the enemy could have had a significant effect on popular support for the war and marked, negative effect on military morale.