Vecvecblahblah,
The point I was making was that technically, after 30 years service you could retire the day prior to the cut off point and miss out on the christmas tree medal, just as you could have been in the RAF/Navy/Army for four years and 364 days when the medals were issued, but still not be entitled to one.
Yes I know as well as anyone else that there needs to be a definate line in the sand, however, would it really have cost all that much to have struck up a few thousand more medals for EVERYBODY serving at the time of the jubilee? Would that really have been more of a waste of money than AP3003 The History Of The Royal Air Force? or those completely pointless rusksacks?
As regards Harry's entitlement to wear one, surely there is something amiss there?