I think he used to be an F3 pilot?

Well, to be fair:E, he does appear to be wearing wings perched on top of all that fruit salad ....:)

Jack

It's just a patchwork repair to a moth hole in his uniform!

I used to be the PMC of a mess at a North London airbase and we were saying farewell, inter alia, to our USAF exchange officer. It fell to me to make a few comments about him before he spoke, and I mentioned that until I started to serve with our allies from t'other side of the pond, I had thought the term: 'Monthly Medal', applied to the golf club. For some reason this seemed to be greeted with much mirth from around the room: probably the way I told it!?

Old Duffer

Do the Marines get the little rifle badge to show they have served in combat, if so he appears to have collected a lot without going anywhere dangerous...
Looks a bit like Capt Mainwaring.

T-T-N,
Nearly right, overlapping is after 5 full size medals, miniatures the statement is "after 9 medals they may be overlapped as is appropriate to the wearer and the mess dress being worn for his service or arm". In short, a barrel chested man wearing a waistcoat and flared cavalry jacket (HCR, AAC, RLC etc) could wear in excess of 9 miniatures, a lady of slight build wearing a bolero style jacket with lapels (RAF, R Signals, REME etc) would end up with the medal on the extreme right (as worn) nestling in the centre of her chest therefore, overlapping is acceptable. RM mess dress along with the remainder of line Infantry is of this design so would expect overlapping (RM only dress like women, I would never be that stupid to suggest they are....)
(PC police - all gender and descriptions may be transposed as applicable)

Respect, I have always found court mounting easier due to having a solid item to work on, swing mounting is far trickier

Acconomy
 

Wensleydale, could you define "acconomy" for me please?

Old Fella...

It has two possible meanings:

1. Historical slang used by a judges when discussing the villains that they had transported to the colonies (ie "he was a con of mine").

2. A typo which slipped through because there is no spell checker on here.

You choose!!

Thanks for the link lauriebe.

Sloppy Link - yes you are right, I was thinking of full-size medals. I never attempted to mount miniatures - far too fiddly for me!

Medals? I'll give you medals!

http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/e...fel/medals.jpg

That's their body armour!

Not conscripts I supose? They are more likely Korea officers......:ouch:

It's not what one's got, it's how one wears them, and this images says it all..

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/...65_964x824.jpg

Great fun thread, but also well done Nutloose for injecting a little reality into it. Brought me back down to earth.:ok:

Koreans?
 

They are badges from McDognalds. You get a badge for each breed sampled

Coats already on..............

Think they failed the paintball warriors course :}

TNT Bismarck?

Wasn't,t a US Catalina involved?