Inspector general backs Purple Heart for pilot's eye damage

(EXCERPT) Defense inspector backs giving medal, by Bill Gertz THE
WASHINGTON TIMES

The Pentagon inspector general has asked the Navy to consider awarding
a medal to an intelligence officer whose eyes were damaged by a laser
fired from a Russian ship in 1997, injuries an earlier Navy probe said
could not be linked definitively to the incident. Inspector General
Joseph E. Schmitz stated in a Aug. 7 letter that the Navy should
determine Lt. Cmdr. Jack Daly's "eye injuries were caused by 'an act
of any hostile foreign force' " and consider him for a Purple Heart.
He also said the Navy did not cover up the incident, as Lt. Cmdr. Daly
has claimed. "[Given all the facts and circumstances of this case, we
believe there is sufficient basis for the secretary of the Navy to
consider Lt. Cmdr. Daly for award of the Purple Heart," said Mr.
Schmitz's report, a...

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