But the point is shipmate that it's a badge! You can award a badge for anything you like and - by and large - it'll mean a lot to you and your community and not that much beyond.
I'm forever grateful to what the boys and girls standing Q over the years have done...and at some point someone's decided that 10 Bears is worth recording. That's great - a line in the sand that you are either over, or not. You either wear the badge...or you don't.
I don't think there's any need to have a go at the chaps for having or producing it...as with every award from the 100m dash certificate at school sports day all the way to the VC...only the chaps who wear it know what they did, how it went and what it means.
I'm willing to bet a couple of people thinking ill of this have 'thousand hour' badges or similar in their possession...similar idea, surely? A milestone that some pass, some don't. Simple as that.
But in all seriousness - is the middle fellow American or not?