- At the Veteran’s Day ceremony at Girlie Bear’s school yesterday, I noticed something:
- The World War II combat veteran had four ribbons.
- The Vietnam War veteran colonel of artillery who went on to serve over 20 years on active duty had four rows of ribbons.
- A couple of the more recent veterans had a tower of ribbons on their chest that went almost to their shoulder boards.
- Not saying they don’t deserve everything they get, because they truly do, but I just thought it was odd.
- An afternoon at the range is a wonderful thing.
- When the RSO stops talking during the safety brief and glares at you and your girlfriend, maybe it’s time to stop talking loudly about your friend and how drunk she got last night.
- That steel target I put together from scrap steel will occasionally stop a 5.56 round, and .22 bounces off it very well. Knob Creek has changed their policy so that I can bring it close enough to reliably hit it with a .22 rifle, so I think it will be going to the range more often.
- Our yearly family ritual of gathering up the leaves in the yard is almost done. They’ve been mulched and bagged. Tomorrow, they go into a compost pile with kitchen waste and grass clippings, and by the spring should be good dirt for the garden boxes.
- Irish Woman had a nice long talk with a ‘mixologist‘ last night about how to make infused bourbon. I guess I’ll be picking up a couple extra bottles of Woodford Reserve this week.
- The cocktail he made last night included Jack Daniels, honey, and other yummy things, so he knows of which he speaks.
- Leave it to the Irish Woman to come away from an event , which had me offering to marry my youngest son into the chef’s bloodline in exchange for their recipes, with a method to improve booze.
- Halloween is officially over when you put the last of the decorations in the attic and throw out what remains of the candy.
Thoughts on the Day
Posted by daddybear71 on November 9, 2013
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Old NFO
/ November 9, 2013Yeah, that is an interesting phenomena…
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jeremy
/ November 9, 2013Thoughts on ribbons….
Sometimes… it gets daggone expensive OR impossible to find some of those WWII or Viet Nam ribbons to keep updating them…
Plus, from WWII to the present day, there has been a steady increase in the number of campaign awards as well as NATO and Unit decorations.
IE- go on a deployment (sea service +1) as part of a NATO operation (+1) with a unit that does great things (Presidential/Branch Unit citation)(+1) in combat (+1 for Navy Marines/ Army CIB) in a recognized theater of operations (Iraq/afg campaign) under the Global War on Terror Banner (+1)
thats like 2 rows for just setting foot in theater….
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TinCan Assassin
/ November 10, 2013There’s also the policy of considering awards when calculating promotion points. Suddenly the Fobbits and REMFs (There’s a difference) don’t get promotions, so other awards are created. Although why there is such a thing as the Army Service Ribbon eludes me. Trust me, I knew I was in the Army when I reported to Basic Training, I don’t need a &*%$ ribbon for “surviving boot”
When I got out of the Regular Army in peacetime, I had one row of ribbons in my rack. When I rejoined the Guard 6 years later, during GWOT, I added 2 more just for serving during war time, and one that was created by GWB that applied retroactively. By the time I got back from Afghanistan, I had 3 rows (I think) starting on a 4th what with it being a NATO Operation, the Campaign Medal, and the ArCom and GCM.
They put it on my DD214, I’ll wear ’em. But I’ll freely admit I was a Fobbit who just loaded trucks.
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