Originally Posted by
Easy Street
Only the HERRICK one will have been earned on a ‘days in Theatre’ basis; the others will all have been on a ‘qualifying sortie from out of Theatre’ basis which for FJ is typically 3 per week. This effectively halves the number of qualifying days for the ACSM for a given amount of time away from home, which makes it that much rarer among FJ crews. I can think of only 2 who have it, and both had previous RW time! Every day counts when living in Theatre...
MAINJFAD (#12): The Jubilee medal pictured is the Diamond (2012). The absence of a Golden means that Gp Capt Thomas must have joined after 1997 as she hadn’t accumulated the 5 years’ service needed for its award. Swift progress to station command by today’s standards.
Adding to Sloppy Link’s explanation (#13), the SHADER OSM edge colour is officially described as ’
representing the large number of airframes used in the operation’: it was announced at the time as air defence grey.
Thank you Easy, yet another piece of ammunition into my medal armoury of triv!
Q. For in theatre it is generally 28 days to qualify, how does it work for those out of theatre unless they are in on ops? One sortie?
SL