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Apparently this guy was a fairly well-decorated officer.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/06/fort.h...pect/index.html

 

"He had been awarded the National Defense Service Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal and the Army Service Ribbon, but was never deployed outside the United States."

Not really. Those are all pretty standard for anyone serving over the past decade.

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Apparently this guy was a fairly well-decorated officer.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/06/fort.h...pect/index.html

 

"He had been awarded the National Defense Service Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal and the Army Service Ribbon, but was never deployed outside the United States."

 

 

will he get the Global Warming Creating Domestic Terrorism Medal? I heard Saul Alinsky handed those out like jolly ranchers on Halloween.

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Apparently this guy was a fairly well-decorated officer.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/06/fort.h...pect/index.html

 

"He had been awarded the National Defense Service Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal and the Army Service Ribbon, but was never deployed outside the United States."

almost everyone gets those medals...

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almost everyone gets those medals...

Thanks, it's been said.

 

It's odd how medals used to actually mean something and now virtually everyone who has served gets them. I had no clue seeing as how I'm not affiliated with the military in any way. I guess it's one of those "morale boosting" bull **** tactics.

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Thanks, it's been said.

 

It's odd how medals used to actually mean something and now virtually everyone who has served gets them. I had no clue seeing as how I'm not affiliated with the military in any way. I guess it's one of those "morale boosting" bull **** tactics.

Those are "given" medals, not "earned" medals - pretty much everyone who shows up for work gets them. Makes the fruit cocktail look a little more impressive to the non-initiated but it's a running joke to anyone who has actually done something in the armed forces.

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Those are "given" medals, not "earned" medals - pretty much everyone who shows up for work gets them. Makes the fruit cocktail look a little more impressive to the non-initiated but it's a running joke to anyone who has actually done something in the armed forces.

So it's like the little umbrella? Got it.

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