Whopee! Medals for all!
I never could understand how, as a career officer, you could get a medal for merely undertaking that which you had promised to do. Crosses were different!
I'm sorry if you want me to stop posting now because my perspective of this doesnt align with your own
No I am not pushing the party line. I am expressing my view, which I've reached after having done some research, talked to some experts and tried to understand the deeper issues behind why this isn't as clear cut as it seems. I have a firm opinion on this, it just happens to be different from other posters here.
I'm sorry if people can't accept that others here have views which they don't like, or which they think is spreading the party line, and that rather than engage with them, they demand they stop posting their views. I'm quite happy that my views are my own - if you'd rather we turned this into a thread where we all go 'isnt everything rubbish, how dare the RAF/MOD/HMG not do exactly as I want them to do' then thats fine, although I think it would be a fairly dull thread to read.
I'm sorry if people can't accept that others here have views which they don't like, or which they think is spreading the party line, and that rather than engage with them, they demand they stop posting their views. I'm quite happy that my views are my own - if you'd rather we turned this into a thread where we all go 'isnt everything rubbish, how dare the RAF/MOD/HMG not do exactly as I want them to do' then thats fine, although I think it would be a fairly dull thread to read.
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The issue is that the MOD is perenially stretched for cash, and the cost of minting
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I was medically discharged from the RAF on 31 May 14, after 35 years and 10 days of service - due to an injury caused by my service! I've emailed Mr Fallon letting him know my thoughts, and asking him for his. I've not received a reply, but, then, he is a busy man.
I was medically discharged from the RAF on 31 May 14, after 35 years and 10 days of service - due to an injury caused by my service! I've emailed Mr Fallon letting him know my thoughts, and asking him for his. I've not received a reply, but, then, he is a busy man.
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As has already been mentioned, the chosen date is that of the Written Statement to Parliament. For those who disagree with the date chosen but agree with the concept, what would you deem a more appropriate start point?
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Indeed, M_B ... any other date would be totally arbitrary, despite my preference for the start date being the day I joined!
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As a start point of regular volunteer service, I suggest that the qualifying date should coincide with the end of conscription in the U.K. - 31st Dec 1960. The last National Serviceman left the services in May 1963.
As a start point of regular volunteer service, I suggest that the qualifying date should coincide with the end of conscription in the U.K. - 31st Dec 1960. The last National Serviceman left the services in May 1963.
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You haven't included the personalised engraving!
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If we are staying with officers, they should be able to handle that, as the only change that I know of in the commissioned rank is the cessation of MoRAF.
With the 50 year delay in the awarding of the GSM for Cyprus 1963-64, and the cut off date of less than a week before the demise of technical ranks such as Cpl/Tech and Senior/Tech has proved too difficult for Innsworth to handle correctly.
Never thought of that, I wonder will that include the rank at the cut off date for those that qualified on that date, their current rank if still serving, rank on leaving if they have left, or simply be bereft of any markings as some other medals are..
With the 50 year delay in the awarding of the GSM for Cyprus 1963-64, and the cut off date of less than a week before the demise of technical ranks such as Cpl/Tech and Senior/Tech has proved too difficult for Innsworth to handle correctly.
Never thought of that, I wonder will that include the rank at the cut off date for those that qualified on that date, their current rank if still serving, rank on leaving if they have left, or simply be bereft of any markings as some other medals are..
Taking Ian's point, medals should show the rank of the recipient at the time of qualification for the award. Innsworth's inability to recognise ranks which were existence at the time he was serving in Cyprus is an error, plain and simple.
One correction, as has already been pointed out, the naming is not "engraved" but impressed, using a machine with a collar which fits around the medal.
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There is a chap on flypast thinking of getting a ww2 DFC engraved, I always thought that would detract from its value, I think he is now looking at framing.