TTN, to quote a friend of mine who has been shot at in a Vulcan, and some others, and they pay me to fly
Yes, one day is extracting the urine. My daughter who did two enjoyable years in the Rock Aux does not believe she deserves a veteran's badge. Others, with many years Service, being messed around by amateurs, and under a discipline regime and the inability to say no, to strike, or to quit may think that sufficient justification.
As soon as you set any criteria you introduce administrative costs and grievance such as the jubilee medals or LSGC. On the latter, I don't recall many men complaining if they missed out.
The bottom lines of course are you don't have to apply or as Outlaw might say, what's in it for me?