I was selected to choose which individual of my unit was going to get the one Silver Jubilee Medal in '77 which had filtered down through the Station heirarchy. Luckily overhearing a character sounding off in a conversation whilst passing the Crew Bar made my task easy,
" What an absolute bloody shambles ! Whoever gets stuck with one of those is going to have the p*ss taken out of them mercilessly for months"
Duly awarded to the same, following my recommendation.