Recipients are also automatically invited to every Presidential Inauguration, during which the President is obliged to salute the shit out of them, as is every other member of the military they happen to bump into, regardless of whether or not they outrank them.

Because travelling alone is kind of lame, recipients are allowed to extend this privilege to include their immediate family meaning there’s literally nothing to stop a Medal of Honor recipient from flying their family to Mexico every day for lunch other than how many tacos they think their family can eat. On top of this, recipients also get given a special card that they can flash in an airport to travel anywhere in the world for free, as long as they travel via military aircraft. For starters, winning a Medal of Honor grants the recipient an instant 10% increase to their retired pay on top of a $1000 dollar pension they receive each and every month just for being so awesome, while there’s an upper limit to how much money this can amount to, it’s still nothing to sniff at.

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