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order of ribbons

I put them in the order that the USN, USMC, USAF & USCG goes by: Personal Awards, Unit Awards and then Service Awards

Soviet Medals

Shouldn't Soviet/Russian decorations be here, too? No doubt some Americans were awarded these during WWII. Specifically, the page on the Order of Victory says it was awarded to Dwight Eisenhower. Anyone know anything about it? --apoivre 12:51, 6 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I know, Soviet awards were only made rarely to very senior U.S. officers and they were never authorized for wear on U.S. uniforms. -Husnock 13:42, 6 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I know some of the awarding countries may still not be allies with the US today, but I thought that apoivre was right, even though Husnock statement is also kind of true. But when it comes to senior officers I've never heard of a medal which was unauthorized for them to wear on their uniforms. We could have some kind of a color coding to state which were only made rarely to the very senior U.S. officers. EHDI5YS 22:55, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

German (and South Vietnam) Medals

The German medals section is very misleading. With the exception of the Marksmanship badge, which is only listed in service records but hardly ever worn on a uniform, none of those medals are authorized for wear on a US military uniform. I work with service records every day and am one of the people who verifies foreign decorations authorized for wear on US uniforms. The flood medal I know for sure isn't authorized and the others I have never seen authorized in over 20 years of dealing with military service records. -OberRanks (talk) 00:43, 14 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The recent change to the page also cut out several Vietnam medals which were commonly awarded, most importantly the Navy and Air Gallantry Cross and the Staff Service Medal. Those need to go back in. -OberRanks (talk) 00:43, 14 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

very misleading?
For starters I please ask you to do a little research before you start talking. You must never have heard of Command Sergeant Major (Retired) William J. Gainey, he was the first Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (SEAC). He retired April 25, 2008. He is wearing the marksmanship badge (Schützenschnur) on his official SEAC web site. http://www.jcs.mil/bios/bio_gainey.html and then here is the page of Major General Keith L. Thurgood wearing the German Army Proficiency Badge on his official web site http://aafes.com/pa/profiles/thurgood.html. "I have never seen authorized in over 20 years of dealing with military service records" Then your interaction with people with foreign decorations from Germany must be very limited. I'll give you the flood medal. The US AR unit that helped out with the flood, were awarded it by Germany. But is still trying to get approval for it, so I removed it. I have already given you examples of each award at your own page. I have personal experience on the subject, I was stationed @ Ramstein for 4 years. I'm allowed to wear the Schützenschnur on my AF uniform

"The recent change to the page cutting out several Vietnam medals" I don't see how this is possible? Sp 8503 & I were the one's who created this page from scratch. We never added those medals, so what cutting are you talking about? Talking about awards that haven't been authorized or even been awarded in over 20 years. Those awards were not very common at all, but given out manly to officers. If you don't agree then show us one enlisted man that received it? I'll do you one better show us three officers profile with this award. I backed up mine, now back up yours.

For now on I suggest you look past the reg book of what ever branch (a guess would be Navy) you work for and go to yahoo or google and look them up and see if they are currently being awarded and allowed to be worn by other services.

I really hope you don't take offense to this. But before I put any medal on the page, I research it first (except the one slip up I admitted to). --EHDI5YS (talk) 19:25, 14 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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 For now on I suggest you look past the reg book of what ever branch (a guess would be Navy) you work for and go to yahoo or google and look them up and see if they are currently being awarded and allowed to be worn by other services.
-I really hope you don't take offense to this. But before I put the medal on the page, I research it first (except the one slip up I admitted to).
+I really hope you don't take offense to this. But before I put any medal on the page, I research it first (except the one slip up I admitted to).
 --[[User:EHDI5YS|EHDI5YS]] ([[User talk:EHDI5YS|talk]]) 19:25, 14 September 2008 (UTC)