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If you could legitimately be awarded one, just one, ribbon that you're not currently authorized to wear, which one would it be and why?
My choice: the Navy Presidential Unit Citation (PUC). I've always been fascinated by this ribbon. It's the highest unit award a service member/unit can get and it is very rarely awarded.
I've always been a big proponent of unit awards like the MUC, NUC , JMUC and the Battle 'E' and I feel they're the most underrated.
Thoughts?
My choice: the Navy Presidential Unit Citation (PUC). I've always been fascinated by this ribbon. It's the highest unit award a service member/unit can get and it is very rarely awarded.
I've always been a big proponent of unit awards like the MUC, NUC , JMUC and the Battle 'E' and I feel they're the most underrated.
Thoughts?
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Posted >1 y ago
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Sgt Packy Flickinger
How the hell do you get that. A group of us went to Slovenia while stationed Italy to bring supplies and work on their camp. We didn't get no stinking medal. :(.
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None of them. I didn't join for the medals or ribbons. Didn't wear but the first 3 I ever earned (back in '77) and only when forced to wear a uniform that required ribbons. It was amusing to watch the eyes of those coming onboard to see a first class in dress blues with a buttload of service stripes and only 3 extremely low ranking ribbons showing. I know for a fact most of the officers either asked my division officer about it or actually bellied up to personnel to look at my jacket. Not that I cared.
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CPO Greg Frazho
Why duh? Not everybody knows that. If you ask most Sailors today I'd wager they've probably never heard of Zumwaldt. And if you told them you had a beard on active duty, they'd laugh you right out of the bar.
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PO1 (Join to see)
CPO Greg Frazho I must be on the out side looking in. I assume some might consider taking the time to read my bio...as brief as it is...before they assume anything. And yes...I had a full beard for many years while on AD. Somewhere, in my files I have a copy of the Z-gram that gave us back our dress blues and got rid of those damned milk man uniforms. Now, if we can find a way to get rid of that ridiculous baby-blue digital blob they attempt to call a uniform (really? on a ship? why idiot thought that one up? prolly some army dogface).....we'll be closer to looking like sailors as opposed to blobs on ships.
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CPO Greg Frazho
You're preaching to the choir, brother. I've been against that ridiculous Type I since they trotted it out en masse.
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I would have to say either the OEF or OIF, because it would mean that I stayed in when I should have.
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Joint Service Achievement Medal. I was put up for one and the paperwork was lost so I never received it. Kind of bummed out about it.
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SPC John Chambers
How would I go about doing that Chief? I'm still waiting for my Reserve Discharge papers from 2009. I think I have sent 50 requests and every time they send back my Active Duty stuff. No help.
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The Antarctica service ribbon with wintered over device. Its just to cool (pun intended) of an opportunity but you've got to be in line for a posting like that.
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The Viet Nam Service Ribbon. I was with the USAF 18 TFW (F-105"s), stationed at Kadena AB, Okinawa in 64-65 as a munitions specialist. Our planes flew combat into Laos and Cambodia (no one was supposed to know). I received, built, stored, delivered and some times help load munitions that never came back. "The Rock" was one of the main jump off points for folks going to Nam. I volunteered to go to Nam, but was refused (we need you here crap). I've heard rumors that my unit was authorized the VNSM and Vietnam Gallantry Cross six months after I rotated.
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I LOL'd at "the one that got away!" I have a pretty funny story about that pertaining to awards...
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SGT Suraj Dave
My whole first deployment, I was eligible on multiple accounts for a CAB, but was told because I have a CMB I may not be awarded one. My second deployment,my PSG and Battalion Commander had some kind of vendetta. so eventhough my whole platoon was eligible for the CAB on multiple occasion's, he kept shutting our award's down. We were denied it due to politics. Im not one to care about awards, but its the principle of the fact we kept being denied for inter-army political reasons.
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My last command (USS Ford FFG 54) was slated to win the Battle E after our decommissioning due to the fact that we were the only ship in our DESRON who was qualified. Lost it to a destroyer that went out on a 8 month deployment and supposably failed half of their qualifiers. Water under the bridge now, but half of my FFG family was ready to draw blood over it.
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CPO Greg Frazho
That happens a lot, brother. Sorry it didn't go your way. Those Battle E contests get very political.
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PO3 Jonathan Cooper
That was the lesson I learned through the process Chief. Sometimes you have to play politics.
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CPO Greg Frazho
And if you think it's political at our level, which it can be, it holds nothing over the level of politics at the TYCOM level and higher.
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