Always cracks me up. Looks so dumb.

What you got?

Our armed forces currently show off too much "fruit salad" on both dress and fatigue uniforms. When I was assigned to 2nd ACR in the mid-80s in Germany, the Regimental Commander only used his Silver Star on his Class A and Dress Blues - the perfect contrast to the "badge hunting" that goes on today.

You don't get to be a NK general unless you exceed minimum FLAIR requirements!

Wear what you want in your dress uniforms, but not on a work uniform. There should be a maximum number of badges you can wear on the work uniform....3 maybe?

I have only cared about knowing who was a Drill Sergeant when on the parade field and who was the Master Gunner when on the gunnery range.

CanyonAg77 said:

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Back when I was in the Corps and dinosaurs roamed the earth, we used to call guys with a ton of cadet ribbons "Mexican Generals".




If we had access to the Internet, we probably would have called them North Korean Generals

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Guy looks down after lunch and see kimchee on his coat. "Ho Lee *** my wife gonna kill me!"

Fall of '74 my Fish year. A Fish Bud suggested we attend the Alpha Phi Omega get acquainted meeting. This was first or second week of the semester. Getting a ribbon would be so cool.

That next morning formation was the worst day of my young life!

I wondered about the NK medals. Turns out that a current NK soldier can wear two generations of medals. So, I you are a good NKPA trooper, you can wear you dad's and your grandad's medals.

Conversely, if you mess up, three generations are punished...

Could you imagine that in the US Army?

lol

I just can't get my hear around that one.

Ha! I only had two ribbons (medals) on my active duty uniform until late into my O-4 years of the Navy. Those were the National Defense Service Medal and Navy Expert Pistol Medal. Back in the days before Major Joint Ops (I.e., Desert Storm), the Navy's philosophy was that medals were just something else that corroded inthe salt air environment. Then, we discovered Joint Ops and by the time I retired as a O-6 Captain, I had accrued over 20 medals, ribbons and devices! Yep, we discovered the Army/AirForce method of tossing medals like Mardi Gras beads to our sailors!
The one that I really hated to see was using the Bronze Star Medal as an attaboy for end of tour award for deployments. Sorta took the extra specialness from it. But that's my opinion.