Originally Posted by Idrach

Nah. Could have been a seriously high intensity fighting bod but merely got there late. You might check a certain VC winner's Iraq gong - he didn't manage to get an Iraq medal with clasp.

He managed to get a fair bit of weed down his neck though. The workshy cunt.

Originally Posted by Fallschirmjager

Afghanistan (the early tours at least) makes Telic look like a school playground fight.

Pretty sure the same could be said of different AO's, on the same tour, in either theatre.

Originally Posted by X59

Pretty sure the same could be said of different AO's, on the same tour, in either theatre.

Show me an AO on H4 that wasn't constantly in contact day and night and I'll suck you off.

All these round medals flying around, surely people only realy class medals with pointy edges as worth counting . I certainly wouldn't be boasting and showing off about 2 jublieeeees, 1 never caught, 1 posted to NI, one pissed in Cyprus, 1 pissed in the Balkans and a couple of sent on tour with my unit pieces of tin

Originally Posted by Fallschirmjager

Show me an AO on H4 that wasn't constantly in contact day and night and I'll suck you off.

Everybody's contact / tour was the most howling.

Originally Posted by Fallschirmjager

Afghanistan (the early tours at least) makes Telic look like a school playground fight.

And both were child's play to a veteran of 14-18 or 39-45, or even Korea. Joking aside, I don't understand the extreme emotions some invest in medals - the idea that what you did is validated, or not, if someone, somewhere, on the basis of someone else's writing skills, gives you a piece of metal, or not. I suppose it's something to do with the need for external approval, God knows why.

Originally Posted by CAARPS

All these round medals flying around, surely people only realy class medals with pointy edges as worth counting . I certainly wouldn't be boasting and showing off about 2 jublieeeees, 1 never caught, 1 posted to NI, one pissed in Cyprus, 1 pissed in the Balkans and a couple of sent on tour with my unit pieces of tin

To your average woman on the street, it's all about the length of the rack not the shape.

Obviously Pte Scrivvens from the Gloucestershire Militia Rifles (V) who served with distinction from Mar - Jun 1972 at Malvern TAC but only on a Tue evening, would sell his soul for a QDJM.

Originally Posted by FORMER_FYRDMAN

And both were child's play to a veteran of 14-18 or 39-45, or even Korea.

To be honest, there were more blokes in all those wars who were never involved in a contact then those who were. I suppose WW1 had the bonus for most though of them being shelled due to the stagnant nature of the war. I suppose the same could be said for Herrick and Telic. A bloke with one medal could have seen much more action than a bloke with ten but both deserve their gongs for the part they played.

Originally Posted by Fallschirmjager

To be honest, there were more blokes in all those wars who were never involved in a contact then those who were. I suppose WW1 had the bonus for most though of them being shelled due to the stagnant nature of the war. I suppose the same could be said for Herrick and Telic. A bloke with one medal could have seen much more action than a bloke with ten but both deserve their gongs for the part they played.

Wild stab in the dark to suggest that the ratio is as similar today as it has been in past wars.
Just re read your post and you already said that.

Originally Posted by Fallschirmjager

To be honest, there were more blokes in all those wars who were never involved in a contact then those who were. I suppose WW1 had the bonus for most though of them being shelled due to the stagnant nature of the war. I suppose the same could be said for Herrick and Telic.

I've spent more of my life than makes sense reading military memoirs and histories, as I'm sure have most of us on Arrse. The more you read about what gets overlooked or what gets awarded because of quotas, the less you can rationally ascribe divine status to medal awards. Recently I was particularly struck reading Robert Graves's account of an officer who was found with his fist rammed into his mouth because he didn't want to cry out and cause more casualties trying to rescue him. No medal was awarded but I would have been proud to do just half as well if similarly tested.