Talk:Mark W. Lippert

March 2015 attack Suggestion
Lippert was attacked while giving a lecture in Korea. Initial coverage is spotty on details but Korean news agency Yonhap released a photo showing Lippert with blood on his face, tie, and particularly his left hand. This story should be monitored for updates as it will likely merit inclusion once quality sources can provide details of what has happened. Daturkel (talk) 23:22, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
 * http://www.politicalforum.com/current-events/399160-us-ambassador-mark-lippert-attacked-trick-south-korea-someones-up-ww-3-a.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kintetsubuffalo (talk • contribs)
 * I hope you're not actually suggesting that some people blabbing about conspiracies on some web forum are anything we could use as a reliable source? Beeblebrox (talk) 15:55, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

What medal might Lippert receive? (Already Naval Officer with Bronze Star)
As a Naval Officer who received a Bronze Star in Iraq he'll certainly get the Purple Heart, but this was "a very specific life-threatening risk" with permanent facial disfigurement and loss of the full use of one hand. Wiki defines the Navy and Marine Corps Medal this way: "The Navy and Marine Corps Medal is the highest non-combat decoration awarded for heroism by the United States Department of the Navy to the members of the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. The decoration was established by an act of Congress on 7 August 1942, and is authorized under 10 U.S.C. § 6246. The Navy and Marine Corps Medal is generally considered the equivalent of the U.S. Army′s Soldier's Medal, the U.S. Air Force′s Airman's Medal, and the Coast Guard Medal. As the senior non-combat award for heroism, this award hinges on the actual level of personal "life threatening" risk experienced by the awardee. For heroic performance to rise to this level it must be clearly established that the act involved very specific life-threatening risk to the awardee.[1]"Profhum (talk) 17:06, 5 March 2015 (UTC)


 * You seem to be asking for speculation or original research on this matter. We don't really do that. In any event he would not have been on active duty duting the attack so I can't see any military award stemming from it. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:10, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

I think I was looking for advice on whether this was worth investigating. Maybe you're right, though. Profhum (talk) 01:54, 6 March 2015 (UTC)