“Effective 11 September 2001, the Meritorious Service Medal may also be bestowed in lieu of the Bronze Star Medal (without Combat "V" device) for meritorious achievement in a designated combat theater.”
I did not say there were not other examples, I said I never saw one awarded in my four years of combat tours. I am sure plenty were given out especially at the bigger bases like Victory.
True. It is kind of like an evolutionary chart. To infantry guys it is horrible that tankers get any medals. Tankers think artillery guys don’t deserve much more than an honorable discharge. Ground guys consider all aviation medals somewhat pathetic, army aviators chuckle at air medals for jet guys and jet guys wonder why they don’t get more medals.
At this point I don't care so much what somebody's background is—although the snake eating spec ops ninjas tend to have more interesting stories than the paper pushers (then again, there are Radar O'Reillys in the world too)—I care that he or she has got a good war story that will make me laugh my ass off when I hear it.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm never going to tell my grandkids how some of my missions were worth one point and some were worth two, and that's how grandpa got an air medal.
Absolutely! @Treetop Flyer encouraged me to look at Wikipedia where I discovered two USAF guys (finance types) were awarded the BS medal and in turn suffered the horrors of cyber bullying. That has to be a series of great stories.
The Cyber Bullying Survivor Medal is still in the works
So the “Ground Medal” or the “Air Star?”
You’re also confusing the “V” as always meaning valor.
What about the Kerbals?
They can wear the AFs once proposed UAV medal.