'What exactly is your beef? Is it against Officers or against people who don't deploy? Or is it a general whinge about the lack of medal for Ops such as Shader?'
Bob,
My point being, and it wasn't put well I admit, it seems ok to give out a medal to people who may or may not have been anywhere, but behaved themselves or didn't get caught...but then claim there is no money for recognition of those that have spent 6 months or longer on OPS doing the job they are supposedly trained for.
Anti-officer? No - vested interest not to be. Been one long enough to know good and bad ones.
G