AJChenMPH
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Again, I don't usually post up personal stuff on here, but this was pretty good, so I figured I'd share.
So last summer my boss put me in for an Achievement Medal. Okay, that's pretty cool. I know one of the things my service has been working on is improving the turnaround time on awards applications, but 7 months was a bit out of control.
Anyways, we have online personnel records, and over the past weekend, I logged on just to check something out. Lo and behold, I see an award posted -- I've gotten a Commendation Medal. My first reaction was, "Oh, okay, it got busted down from Achievement to Commendation." Then I did a double-take -- it got upgraded from Achievement to Commendation.
Sure enough, I looked on the paperwork -- my entire chain of command signed off on it as an Achievement Medal, but when it got to my agency's reviewing official (for some reason, a 4-star Admiral is our acting reviewing official), he signed off on it and upgraded it to a Commendation Medal. I'm still in a bit of a "WTF?!" mood, but I'm definitely not complaining!
So last summer my boss put me in for an Achievement Medal. Okay, that's pretty cool. I know one of the things my service has been working on is improving the turnaround time on awards applications, but 7 months was a bit out of control.
Anyways, we have online personnel records, and over the past weekend, I logged on just to check something out. Lo and behold, I see an award posted -- I've gotten a Commendation Medal. My first reaction was, "Oh, okay, it got busted down from Achievement to Commendation." Then I did a double-take -- it got upgraded from Achievement to Commendation.
Sure enough, I looked on the paperwork -- my entire chain of command signed off on it as an Achievement Medal, but when it got to my agency's reviewing official (for some reason, a 4-star Admiral is our acting reviewing official), he signed off on it and upgraded it to a Commendation Medal. I'm still in a bit of a "WTF?!" mood, but I'm definitely not complaining!