Viz

Go outside and have a word with yourself, you're spouting crap :=

You get real medals for putting your pink body on the line, unless you consider doing battle at handbrake house worthy of recognition :\

On what planet could you ever think that I said, meant or inferred the above? As I did say though ...... You're spouting crap .... I can only hope that you've been at the kokinelli.

And what point do we disagree on? I disagree with the call for 'veterans' to be awarded it.

I think that quite a lot of these bodies aren't "pink".
It's a bullsh1t medal anyway. Get over it

MechGov, all pink on the inside.

It's not a decoration or a campaign medal for the military, it's a celebratory medal for public servants in the front line, including police, fire and rescue, ambulance etc, to commemorate her Majesty's 60 years on the throne. I would be happy to wear it if I qualified.
Rubbishing it as a chocolate medal is a form of inverted snobbery. Rejoice and celebrate for heaven's sake! There's not a lot else to be happy about these days.

Clockwork Mouse

60 years on the throne.

Probably why it is called the "Diamond Jubilee Medal" - OK, I'll get my coat

Can remember being in primary one, Sister Gertrude's class, and John the janitor comes in and announces "The king's dead".

Bloody hell, was that nearly 60 years ago?

:(

Perhaps a reasonable criterion to award the Queen's Diamond Jubilee medal to veterans would be to award it to those who, in addition to meeting the qualifying criteria for the 1977 Jubilee Medal but who did not receive it, subsequently completed a further 25 years of service?

Just a thought. But it would perhaps end the lingering sour taste many still feel about that wholly unfair 1977 'lottery'.

More relevant might be a backdated gong for those who flew Fast Jets during the Cold War. The Mudmoving and Recce world was particularly hazardous, with guys spearing in left right and centre trying to get the job done with some of the lousy equipment we had. A Single-Seat OCU I was on lost 4 out of 12 staff killed in accidents in the space of 6 months in the 70s.

How about Bounced SAPs in Germany in “5km” visibility with the windscreen covered in insects?

And how about Lightning Low Level intercepts over the sea at night with no Rad Alt and the baro alt reading minus 1500ft because of Pressure Error?

The flying was exhilarating and - like most others - I wouldn’t have wanted to do anything else, but with TACEVAL, MAXEVAL etc. the job was extremely demanding and at times downright bloody dangerous.

I can remember it too - woman from across the road came over (it was half term, or I was at home sick (too young to have learned to skive off school)) and Mrs Over (her name. although from "over the road") said to My Mum that the King was dead - They clung round each other sobbing their hearts out - G VI was very much loved for taking over when E VIII skipped off with his American bird and for his leadership and humanity during WWII. Now what did I have for breakfast?.......

Wander00

It was definitely Term Time - the Head Teacher came into the Classroom to tell the Teacher the news. The School then closed as a mark of respect.

Yeah, must have been an early bout of man-flu - half term was usually a couple of weeks later

OK, I'll raise you "how about stooging around at low level down the back of a Vulcan with no ejector seat?" (Which I am mightily thankful I never had to do, as I sensibly got myself posted to Victors)

No?

Of course not, you can go on forever inventing reasons to get medals. Why not admit we enjoyed what we did, got reasonably well paid for doing it, and leave it at that!

Anyone old enough to have served in any military or close support service [such as, dare I say, Met.] during the Cold War will surely ack. that our victory and our medal was in winning?
The world and the country are again in a sh1t state, but we prevented it being blown into little bits.
Like our grandfathers and fathers, todays old gits got on with the business, there were lots of laughs, some tears, but when the Wall came down our many years of service paid off.
No medal, no OBE, but we know what we achieved, and we did it with ours eyes open.
As for the Jubilee medal, I for one am very glad that there are young people out there who will qualify for one [my daughter included], holding a slender line which keeps my a**e more or less safe.

...did 30 years plus before leaving without a medal of any kind. Is this a record?

Anyway it's a bit late for me to start collecting meaningless baubles (Queen's Jubilee medal - for gods sake!).

Ron,

You certainly beat me, I was still bare chested after close to 28 years. (The two conflicts that occured on my watch, The Falklands and GW1, happened when I was doing stints as a "Whitehall Warrior"!).

I'll wear it. Next to my medal from GW1 which was also awarded for attendance. At least they demonstrate that for 27 years I've been serving this country in one role or another. Much, much more than many of the oxygen thieves I deal with daily in my current employment.