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USAF is full of paper pushers and I didn't get the DFC for over a year after my flight lead submitted the paperwork, unbeknownst to me until I had returned to the states and the boss ordered me to a ceremony.
This guy had to wait 68 years for his DFC:
I stumbled across this awards ceremony by accident years ago while walking back from the New Sagaya grocery store in ANC. The gentleman in the broad brimmed hat behind Lt. Gen. Hoog in the picture turned out to be Alaska's sole U.S. congressman Don Young.
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