We can all read the Wikipedia entry for BSM........ But the facts are that each service hangs a different criteria for the award which cheapens the reason the award was instituted in the first place. Unless you see bloody and dead friendly and enemy soldiers with your own eyes and smell the stench and hear the cries of the wounded or are in some sort of direct action against your foe,then you have no business receiving awards intended for warriors. Some services like the USAF ( really not trying too piss people of here) work in a more sterile an cerebral manner. But they long for the same recognition as grenade chuckers. The truth is of all the people in the USAF only a very tiny minority could be considered warriors in the realistic sense of the term. Each of us makes a choice when we go to the recruiter. It takes a huge team of people with different skills and talents, with that said, leave the rewards for the people at the sharp end to them. Should bomb hangers get BSM's? Should SP's guarding the gate of the airbase get BSM's? Should someone working deep in the bowels of the engine room of a ship get a BSM? Should someone working on the deck of a carrier 500 miles away from where there planes are going get a BSM? Should the rescue swimmer who saves a downed pilot get a BSM? Should the F/A-18 pilot whoes bombs save a surrounded platoon on the ground get a BSM? Should the SAW gunner in an infantry fireteam who eliminates an enemy machine gun position with direct fire get a BSM? Should the navigator on a cargo plane making a milk run get a BSM? I would say no unless there is an instance which invovles them in direct combat. Like the pilot and SAW gunner.She should of gotten an MSM at the most for her work. Pushing logistical packages from an office is not the sharp end, I do not care how many time your FOB gets mortared.