12-10-2012, 05:41 PM
Al-muell Wrote:Some time ago I posted an award group to col. Zbytkovkiy, who was awarded both BM and OPW2 for the same heavy wound. This happened because his commander recommanded him for one award from that, then shortly after, he was moved to a different unit, where his new commander recommended him for another award for the same event (if I remember correctly, he was in both cases recommended for OPW2 but in the end one of them was downgraded to BM).
Here, the case may be that the commander that was responsible for the post on that hill was dismissed (or moved elsewere), but before that he recommended them to be awarded, and then the new guy who took his post recommanded them again, but for a different award? That's just a guess.
Neat story about Zbytkovkiy. :thumbsup
I have a feeling that this was too high-profile an event for the double awarding simply to have an administrative explanation. I haven't found anything official yet though.
