Originally Posted by
ShotOne
Lots of RAF personnel get medals -only a very small handful for being in harm’s way.
Only too true!
I have just been turned down by the Medals office for a (retrospective) Op SHADER medal on the basis that ISTAR crews sipping coffee in Waddington or Cyprus were contributing more op effectiveness than we targeteers in PJHQ. I also didn't qualify for the Non-article 5 medal for ELLAMY/Libya in 2011 for the same reason, while Tonka engineers in Italy did.
Go figure.
