Originally Posted by
oxenos
Exactly the point I was making when I said
So I exaggerated - its called hyperbole.
If 300,000 GSM (NI) were issued, how many would the Cold War Medal run to? A million? one and a half million?
When you dish them out like that, they become meaningless.
The MSM medal used to to be limited to around eight per year. A board of senior officers chose the recipients from recommendations from PMA. In 2004 it was changed drastically and in that year more were issued than in the previous thirty years, no real reason for the change was publicised. Now every WO and FS who has done over thirty years seems to get one.