All the info I recieved came from St Louis ( MPRC)
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Missileer I'm sorry if this thread is going off track that was not my intention.

In Australia we never got any gongs for doing our JOB right.
That is one thing ill never understand about yanks, you get a medal for anything and everything "PTE XXX, YOU ARE HEREBY AWARDED THE SNAPPY SALUTE MEDAL, WELL DONE SON"
Dont take this personally, but what a load of wank
And dont get me wrong, Campaign/service medals are not what i am talking about. of course these have merit.
As do Decorations (not like the christmas tree type)

Originally Posted by Guardsman_Ca

All the info I recieved came from St Louis ( MPRC)
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Missileer I'm sorry if this thread is going off track that was not my intention.

Well, it seems to be still on track, you can ask questions in the thread if they are on topic. By the way, I meant to say I was in from 1962-1965, not 1992-1995.
If the St. Louis records show you were awarded a medal, badge, ribbon, or whatever, that's as far as you can go.

The ribbons are as follows:
Top row: Swedish Armed Forces Basic Training, Swedish Armed Forces Medal for International Service (2 times), Kronobergarnas Drill Corps
Second row: US Army Good Conduct Medal, NATO Kosovo Medal (2 times), DanCon March (Danish Contingent March)

Update: NATO Non Article 5 (Not in picture (yet))

Originally Posted by AJChenMPH

There's still something fishy, though -- NDSM is only awarded for defined periods of time, and only for active-duty personnel. If you never saw active duty, then you shouldn't have been awarded the NDSM. Unless your unit was activated at some point...?

Well all I can say is that I was awarded the NDSM during Desert Storm. I was in the National Guard and not on active duty nor did my unit get mobilized. It's on my DD-214 so it's official.

Originally Posted by Marinerhodes

If I recall correctly: If you have served for 1+ months I believe you rate the GWOT (service) medal. If you have deployed for 30+ days in support of OIF or OEF you rate the GWOT (Expeditionary).

The appropriate Campaign Medal supercedes the GWOT Expeditionary. If one is issued for the area to which you deploy.

I personnally don't have any but my Stepdad's father had the expert qualification badges for rifle and grenade and I'm not sure what it's called exactly but it was the NCO of the year or something close to that when he was a staff sergeant in the army in the 70's or 80's.

The only Medals you get in the UK are combat or bravery. The only odd exception is the long service and good conduct medal, and if you are lucky a special issue of a the Queens jubilee medal. A freind of mine spent 12 years on active service and got just two medals [General Service Medal] with a row of clasps on each one to show where he had fought.

Le- the long service and good conduct medal, for 20 good years, used to known as the Rootie- Gong among soldiers, did it not?

No need to read my input, please just skip over this if you wish. But it's kinda neat to know that there are people here that have been part of recent history, names like Kosovo, Desert Storm will soon reach the ten year mark, then the twenty, and so on and so on, only to appear in the black and white of the words of history books, and encyclopedias.

You guys have made your make on human history, just, it must have been kind of special to think, wow, I have been there....