And a 'FULLBIRD' at that @Suppressed plus a Bronze Medal to boot. He's still a POS to so callously speak of War Casualties in this way.
@corbe It's a Bronze Star that is given for either meritorious service,or for valor in combat. If given for valor in combat,there is a little bronze "V Device" attached to the ribbon.
In Lady Lindsey's case it was meritorious service and pretty much automatic for any military lawyer not caught selling secrets to the enemy or stealing unit funds. That does NOT mean that some of the officers that get it were not truly hard-working officers that deserved special recognition,though. It just means that slackers who whine about not getting any pretty ribbons "like all the other kids have" are given them too.
Almost all of the ribbons you see on the dress uniforms of the Generals and Admirals you see on tv are meaningless little doo-dahs that "say" to those who can "Read them" that the wearing was wearing a uniform while some war was going on somewhere,not that they were actually combatants. The Viet Nam Service Ribbon is an excellent example. Most people who were never in the military would hear that name and thing it means the person wearing it served in VN during the VN War. It doesn't. It just means they were in the military while the war there was going on. Other ribbons mean stuff like the wearer was "secondoned" to some foreign military for training or teaching purposes,served Embassy Duty,an instructor at a military school,etc,etc,etc. In short,military members carry their career bios on their chests when wearing dress uniforms. Genuine "medals" as most civilians understand the term are pretty rare.
PC has even reduced the value of what used to be pretty impressive "school badges",too. Like Airborne wings and Ranger School tabs. They are now PC career steps for female officers. There is no way in hell any female not on steroids could make it through jump school or (especially) Ranger School as they were ran prior to the 1980's.
When I went through jump school in the mid-60's all applicants had to take a special physical test just to see if they were in good enough physical condition to attend.
The day we arrived,my jump class had a starting roster of 425 students. 3 weeks late 187 of us graduated. And Ranger School was a hell of a lot more physically and mentally demanding than jump school was. Now anybody with a pulse can graduate from either if they are female or think they are female.
