Kriegsmarinely Courage

This may be a minor point, but I feel it is necessary to counter some of Sam's more felonious arguments. Sam uses the "statistics" of Iron Cross recipients to make the claim that the men of the heer had more courage and gumption than their naval equivalents. According to teh internets, "the Iron Cross was awarded for bravery in battle as well as other military contributions in a battlefield environment." Well, this is rather easy to accomplish (I assume) with the physical freedom afforded to infantry by the division of men in the heer and by the nature of a terrestial environment, but to bravely split an infinitive and go out, guns-a-blazing, in some attempt for personal glory is not only impractical in the metallic confines of a u-boat, but it would also be a danger to the other men. The operation of these submarines and battleships required a cohesive, less individual way of doing things. In order to win the battle, you had to be a cog in the machine; there was no room for heroic, one-man escapades. Notice that the only two kriegsmarine members mentioned on the above-linked wikipedia page were submarine captains. They were the only ones who could, and should, have been making significant decisions in those settings. In fact, one might say that the true courage required to be in the kriegsmarine made most ineligible for the Iron Cross, and, in fact, one just did say that.