General Odierno's awards are backwards/out of order. (Do you see it?)

AR 670-1?

"Applicability. This regulation applies to the Active Army, the Army National Guard/Army National Guard of the United States, and the U.S. Army Reserve, unless otherwise stated. In addition, it applies to the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps and the Corps of Cadets, United States Military Academy, only when their respective uniform regulations do not include sufficient guidance or instruction. It does not apply to the Chief of Staff of the Army,
or former Chiefs of Staff of the Army, each of whom may prescribe his or her own uniform. Portions of this regulation are punitive. Violation of the specific prohibitions and requirements of specific portions by Soldiers may result in adverse administrative and/or charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice."

As this is a public photo, I would consider this something that can be discussed professionally. And I presume this wasnt an intentional uniform modification.

MAJ Jager,You assume a lot with your claim about senior NCOs. Could it be that some consider this common knowledge since we live in AR 670-1 and not really worth the comment. I consider it as a question I would ask new troops during in ranks. I would never assume a general populace didn't know something based off lack off answers. I could say it is telling that a field grade officer is border line condescending with their comments, but I wont because it would be wrong ;)

Telling who commented so far on this trivia? We could also say it's very telling that every time an officer sets up a uniform or takes a photo they ask a Senior NCO to go over it for them. Yet I can't recall ever seeing an officer asked to help square away an NCO or Soldiers uniform. Im sure somewhere it's probably happened, but not that I've ever seen.

Now back to the topic. The original observation was that awards were backwards on the CSA's photo. In other words the "order of precedence" is incorrect, not the spacing, location, or manner of wear. The brilliant observation that AR 670-1 doesn't apply to the CSA is completely invalid. AR670-1 governs the wear of the uniform and placement of awards on the uniform. (All the real info is in the DA PAM 670-1) It does state the order of precedence, however the actual order of precedence is set by an executive order or from congress when the award is created in an act part of those source documents dictates where each award falls in the hierarchy of military awards, that info is collated for us in AR 600-8-22 Military Awards; which conveniently does not have that little disclaimer everyone is so happy to copy paste here. Since the order of precedence is dictated by executive order or an act of congress yes even the CSA is covered by that. Now if he wants to wear his awards with different spacing or location on the uniform, mix and match accessories or choose to wear or not wear pieces of the uniform mandated in 670-1 then that of course is his perogative as CSA that sets his own uniform.
but congrats on reading at least one page of an AR, it's a good start.

Rgr, his uniform is so high vis (in the public eye a lot) Im just surprised it was overlooked. Awards are a big discriminator on DA boards, Id just make sure yours are correct! And whats telling is when a senior leader appreciates the keen eye of an NCO who can make a swift correction to enforce standards, vice a leadership approach of negativity - erroneous at that.

Agreed, except the let it go part, enforce all standards - rank not applicable.