"Does anyone know if embedded journos get the OSM? There's a long tradition of newspaper correspondents getting campaign medals, going right back to the Crimea, and I've seen a Boer war medal named to a newspaper man."
Sometimes they do - the first lot in TELIC got one, including several daily mail journalists who then later on wrote a piece attacking MOD CS who deployed for the required time receiving one. Oh how we laughed...
Not sure if later embeds do though - I believe its only the first phase of a campaign.