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Obama Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said in 2010 that fewer medals were being awarded because modern warfare often is waged at a distance and "there's less hand-to-hand or in-close combat than there has been in previous wars."
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"We begin to have to do stupid things if the supplemental isn't passed by the Fourth of July recess," he said.
