Originally Posted by
BEagle
Around 300000 GSM(NI) were awarded.... Yes, three hundred thousand!
Nowadays LS&GC is awarded after 15 years service. Perhaps 15 years service between 1947 and 1991 would be reasonable for any 'Cold War Veteran' medal?
Everyone?
Irrespective of where they served and what they did?
That means a front line pilot that did say 10 years in RAF(G) gets nothing but a clerk that did 15 years in the archives in Little-Wallop-On-The Bottom gets a gong