The Medal

Rating: 3/10 (14 November 2018)

Frankly, I'm shocked Clint allowed the script to ignore military conventions regarding the Medal of Honor. First, it's the "Medal of Honor" or simply, "The Medal." Never Congressional Medal, or CMW. (It may be awarded by Congress but it's not called that by the military.) Second, the Medal is "awarded" never "won." Third, senior grades salute first anyone wearing the Medal or it's ribbon. Fourth, at the party just before deployment, they make a point of saying ordered to wear all medals and awards, but Highway isn't wearing his blue ribbon Medal. Finally, a Medal of Honor holder would not be deployed into combat. Just too few survived the action which the award recognises. Also, by the time the military investigate the circumstances and the award decision makes its way through the system, the recipient has left the service.
I'm not conversant in the military conventions myself, but I think these are the minimum observations we all should know.