Originally Posted by
Mil-26Man
Right, so if the Cold War in its entirety is reclassified as a specific campaign for the purposes of this medal (rather than the particular shooty bits of it), how would Widger recognise today's service personnel who are doing the exact same thing he and others did decades ago?
A previous SoS for Defence was looking into this. It’s called the wider service medal and would recognise those personnel who actually deploy to the Baltic or for those, like 51 Sqn, who have been involved in Russia Facing activity before the Ukraine war kicked off and ever since.