With reference to the alleged "Long Service" medal for Officers. Logic dictates that there should be a date of commencement for the qualification rather than a cut off point for service. The award being a "Queen's medal", there being no precedent, should commence for serving Officers at her coronation and the first qualification date would be in 1968. This should remove the argument over entitlement. the 2014 arbitrary date was conjured out of nowhere. Numbers of awards are far less than the thousands of W.O.s SNCOs and airmens' medals issued over the same time period.