Medals and Badges
Sorry guys, as an ex mil chopper driver and all round war hero (well maybe not that) ribbons,,medals and badges amount to diddly squat out in the real world. Succesful in the corporate world now and wouldn't dream of mentioning heroic deeds in the dead of night on outskirts of XMG or Stanley or wherever, every now and then I get to interview an ex skygod and frankly find them dull and uninteresting with nothing to talk about other then irrelevant activities in Bosnia, Kuwait or wherever. Its what you can do in the future that counts, sorry, but it realy is.
Find it a bit sad that the only thing people have in their lives is what they did in the past and to walk around in a blue blazer with a squadron badge on it once a year with medals hanging off it.