Medal of Honor Awarded During SOTU

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4:18a, 2/25/26

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To CW5 Eric Slover, a Chinook pilot in the 160th SOAR.

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7:30a, 2/25/26

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More on him & his award

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2026/02/25/army-helicopter-pilot-wounded-during-maduro-raid-receives-medal-of-honor-during-state-of-the-union/

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7:39a, 2/25/26

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Here was the other one award and it was a longtime coming:

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9:48p, 2/25/26

Was the Captain both an NFO and a pilot? He has both wings, but I can't seem to find any reference to him becoming both.

This is what wiki says.

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He qualified as a naval aviator at Pensacola in August 1945.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royce_Williams#cite_note-Cleaver-5][5][/url]
He learned to fly the F9F-5 Panther jet and was assigned to active duty in the Korean War, during which he flew 70 missions.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royce_Williams#cite_note-SDUT-2][2][/url]

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In reply to bigtruckguy3500 • 5:01a, 2/26/26

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The squinty-wings confused me as well.

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In reply to bigtruckguy3500 • 12:46p, 2/26/26

bigtruckguy3500 said:
Was the Captain both an NFO and a pilot? He has both wings, but I can't seem to find any reference to him becoming both.

This is what wiki says.
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He qualified as a naval aviator at Pensacola in August 1945.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royce_Williams#cite_note-Cleaver-5][5][/url]
He learned to fly the F9F-5 Panther jet and was assigned to active duty in the Korean War, during which he flew 70 missions.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royce_Williams#cite_note-SDUT-2][2][/url]

Yes. First qualified as a naval aviator, then had exchange duty at Nellis from 1954 - 1956 where he qualified in the F-86 and F-100, which earned him the Air Force Pilot Badge.

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8:43p, 2/26/26

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Some more MoH coming and well deserved

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/feb/26/trump-award-medal-honor-three-us-army-soldiers/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmark

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In reply to Prince_Ahmed • 10:52p, 2/26/26

Prince_Ahmed said:
bigtruckguy3500 said:
Was the Captain both an NFO and a pilot? He has both wings, but I can't seem to find any reference to him becoming both.

This is what wiki says.
Quote:
He qualified as a naval aviator at Pensacola in August 1945.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royce_Williams#cite_note-Cleaver-5][5][/url]
He learned to fly the F9F-5 Panther jet and was assigned to active duty in the Korean War, during which he flew 70 missions.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royce_Williams#cite_note-SDUT-2][2][/url]

Yes. First qualified as a naval aviator, then had exchange duty at Nellis from 1954 - 1956 where he qualified in the F-86 and F-100, which earned him the Air Force Pilot Badge.

I don't think he's wearing air force wings. It looks like Naval Flight Officer wings. I'm also not sure that you get the wings of the other service by doing an exchange with that service. Unless things were different back then.

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8:39a, 2/27/26

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CDR Salamander's Fullbore Friday is CWO 5 Eric Slover:

https://open.substack.com/pub/cdrsalamander/p/fullbore-friday-e64?r=tfmfm&utm_medium=ios