What a lot of extremely offensive, ill educated and ignorant posts on this thread.
On topic, I agree with the general consensus that no such medal should rank higher than that given for an act of valor under fire. I think that's a given.
Why this topic should turn into a general bashing of men and women doing an effective and well regarded job by the plain ignorant and those with an out dated Cold War mind set is beyond me.
This is too close to the Bomber Command bashing by pacifists with glorious hindsight that has gone on for decades now for my liking, although I'm sure some of the people who have posted unnecessary bile on here would disagree.
BZ 39 and XIII, although I hope none of you are reading this crap.