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Florida Senators Request Honors For Those Involved In NAS Pensacola Shooting
January 26, 2020
U.S. Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott are urging the Navy and Department of Defense to honor the heroes of the Naval Air Station Pensacola shooting last month.
The Florida senators sent a letter to Secretary of Defense, Dr. Mark Esper, and the Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas B. Modly urging the Navy to bestow the Navy Distinguished Civilian Medal with Valor to the Naval Air Station Police Officer wounded in the line of duty and the Office of the Secretary of Defense to award the Secretary of Defense Medal of Freedom to the sheriff’s deputies that responded to the incident. The letter also requests that those service members wounded in the attack receive the Purple Heart.
Read the full letter here.
Editor’s note: The letter signed by both senators mistakenly identifies the deputies that responded as being from Okaloosa County when they were in fact from Escambia County.
Pictured: Senators Rick Scott (above) and Marco Rubio (below) both visited NAS Pensacola in the days after the December 6 shooting. Photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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3 Responses to “Florida Senators Request Honors For Those Involved In NAS Pensacola Shooting”
All involved in helping the wounded and all of those eliminating the threat should be honored.
These personnel are deserving of the requested honors in the name of the fallen. Furthermore, Americans can honor those that died at the hands of terrorists by ending their training on US soil. The so called more stringent vetting process will not be enough.
We continue to be at war with these terrorists as evidenced by this recent attack, and they will continue to try an infiltrate our country by any means possible. At least twice now have Saudi nationals used aviation training as a means to kill Americans.
15 of the 19 terrorists that brought down the twin towers were Saudi nationals. Whatever country these terrorists come from they must be stopped. The terrorists found another weakness in our defense and they struck. Thank God for all of those involved that stopped the attack at NAS Pensacola.
Just because this training has gone on for years does not mean it should continue. Remember 911. Remember NAS Pensacola. Those that died deserve more, their families deserve more.
Embarrassing that our Senators don’t know the details where this terrorist shooting took place and that they’ve confused Escambia and Okaloosa Counties. But then again for them, this part of the state is flyover territory except when they are in the hunt for Republican votes in their election.