Navy posthumously awards Chris Kyle medals he said he earned
WASHINGTON — In light of revelations that Navy SEAL Chris Kyle may have embellished his count of awards, the Navy has posthumously given him all the medals he claimed to have but had not previously earned.
Navy spokesman Capt. Mark Clemens said that the discrepancy, one Silver Star and two Bronze Stars for valor, was the Navy’s own fault.
“We knew there were differences in our numbers, but we failed to fix Navy records to reflect Kyle’s narrative,” says Clemens. “This time around we even gave him an extra few medals, just to make him humble in retrospect.”
In addition, the Navy has also revived the non-existent practice of confirming kills in order to verify Kyle’s claims. The Navy’s actions have triggered a national movement to correct the record of unverified claims made by Kyle.
Among other things, a federal judge has reversed the libel ruling in favor of Jesse Ventura, and Texas Rangers have generated official police reports detailing Kyle’s killing of two carjackers in 2009.
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