Originally Posted by
gijoe
That is it in a shell for a nut.
The decision, or lack of one, is almost embarassing. Other Commonwealth nations have been recognising the time and personal sacrifice that their people make since day one...and medallically awarding them with items with HM's image on.
Meanwhile the UK continues to send people on ops - oops sorry it is not ops so you won't get Op Allowance - to fill ops roles - oops, sorry it is not ops so you won't get a medal - and in many, many cases resulting in junior ranks receiving a monthly wage that is less than they receive in the UK - it is ops and you are not in the UK so we will take your Home to Duty away.
Junior Ranks of all colours that have not done ops before are confused - and the leadership of all colours needs to pull its finger out.
But you know what we're like for medals, they're just not the done thing. Unless you can convince some senior type that it's up there with D-Day on the risk scale - and the criteria can be sorted to enable his chums to qualify ahead of the other Services; and unless you can convince the Finance types that spending money on people rather than management consultants is a good move; and as long as the politicians and Seevice Chiefs can put a good spin on it to get more votes / jets / tanks / ships, then it probably won't happen quickly. Or at all. Pending a full scale inquiry to ensure it doesn't conflict against some seemingly random decision made in 1957.