No, you SHOULD have the number of medals you deserve. If that happens to be 3, then fine. There is no written regulation that says you HAVE to get a medal. If there was, then they wouldn't be so special.JulesLee said:I have like 3 ribbons.. I should have like 8 by now..
Originally Posted by Navy Boy
I still didn't get any medals at the bankwit and this is like my 2nd year in NJROTC and still no medals WTF!? I work I polish shoes for other cadets.
And cadets that screw around get medals WTF!? Now I can understand that the senors get a medal for serving 4 years in the program,but the cadets that screw around!?
You American Cadets with all those ribbons go about looking like bloody war heroes. In Australian cadets they don't get anything like that.
Damn I never knew that.:???:RAInf said:You American Cadets with all those ribbons go about looking like bloody war heroes. In Australian cadets they don't get anything like that.
RAInf said:You American Cadets with all those ribbons go about looking like bloody war heroes. In Australian cadets they don't get anything like that.
I see that is what is propably going to happen to me next year,but maybe I can ask my band teacher to go with the NJROTC unite one football game and with the band on the next football game.armlesscadet said:most likely grades and the fact i could only go to 1 comp becuz my sgt kept cancleing the ones i could go to and when i couldnt go we actualy went to the comp but i was at practice all year and my friend who was on color gaurd and also only went to 1 comp and didnt do the football games and all that got her color gaurd ribbon and its freaking stupid how that works
For me, Doody says it all.Doody said:I hope I do not ruffle anyone's feathers with my opinions
I do see whining about not getting any candy for your uniform to be becoming of a good soldier. In my opinion, you do your job. If you choose to go above and beyond, that's up to you. But to do hard work with the expectation of getting an award is rather distaseful. I would advise you to read the recent book detailing the lives of soldiers who earned the Medal of Honor. A common characteristic shared by all of them is a sense that they did nothing that anyone esle had done. One guy in the Korean War thought he was getting court martialed when he was called into see some officers after he was no longer a POW.
As for other people getting awards that don't deserve it, welcome to life and the military. How many times have you witnessed someone getting an award that did not deserve it? I worked my butt off on setting up the 55th Anniversery of the 101st dropping into Normandy dinning out for 30 days. A freind of mine came in the night before and wrote the names of VIPs on little name cards for the tables. He gets an AAM and I got jack. That senario is repeated time and time again in the military. As I said, welcome to life.
Lastly, No offense to JROTC, but I firmly believe that they give out too many awards. Last year I was involved with a veterans day parade. One of the high school ROTC groups were there. The leader of them had more awards than Patton. I have never seen so many awards hanging off that guys uniforms. Every soldier standing in our formation shook their heads.
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