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September 23rd, 2011, 09:36 PM
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#1 | | Grunt
Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: The Peach State
Posts: 91
| What decorations do you have
how many navy officers on here and how many broonze, silver stars and navy cross's. It seemed like the officers got all the medals and us grunts didn't get many  .
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September 24th, 2011, 06:53 AM
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#2 | | Platoon Commander
Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: eastern Iowa
Posts: 484
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Enlisted Dolphins, Deterrent Patrol pin, Viet Nam Era ribbon. You don't get many awards for skulking around the sewers of the world. Dolphins I wear with pride: damned few have the kind of crazy you need to earn those.
Then again, a buddy of mine was on the Parche and has a chestload of ribbons, but he can't tell you about any of them. "He'd have to kill yah."
You aren't going to get a Purple Heart on a sub, unless you are a SEAL assigned aboard, and then, again, you won't be able to tell anyone how you got it, just show them the scars.
You aren't going to get any higher awards, either, since subs usually go down with All Hands. Nature of the Beast.
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September 25th, 2011, 12:42 PM
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#3 | | Platoon Commander
Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Vermont Republic
Posts: 511
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National Defense Medal (Just for showing up)
Meritorious Unit Commendation (USS Independence CVA-62 1970
Vermont Special Duty Ribbon (VT Army National Guard Flood Emergency 1973
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September 25th, 2011, 02:55 PM
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#4 | | Designated Marksman
Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Central Ohio
Posts: 621
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I got the usual stuff for 3 tours to RVN in the 60's, . . . but the one medal that means the most to me...........
It wasn't a medal, . . . but rather a "metal", . . . metal sound of the gang plank landing on pier 6 at San Diego, in late April of 1968, . . . 4 days later I was no longer USN, . . . I was USNR.
Medals are fine, . . . not disparaging those who earned them, . . . God bless em all, . . . getting home, . . . honorably, . . . in one piece was my "medal".
May God bless,
Dwight
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November 10th, 2011, 07:38 PM
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#5 | | Designated Marksman
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Illinois
Posts: 579
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Nothing changes BUDS13. Roman Centurions probably complained about their generals.
Last edited by CHARLIED308; November 13th, 2011 at 05:20 PM.
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November 26th, 2011, 08:11 AM
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#6 | | Grunt
Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: USA
Posts: 88
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Rifle with "E" (Ribbon/Medal), Pistol with "E" (Ribbon/Medal), Sea Service with cluster (Ribbon), Military Expeditionary (Medal), National Defense (Ribbon/Medal), Navy Expeditionary (Ribbon/Medal), Good Conduct with cluster (Ribbon/Medal), Meritorious Unit Citation (Ribbon).
A couple of my buds from a former command told me we also were awarded the Presidential Unit Citation (Ribbon) and the Joint Services (??? Medal???). Not sure how I would confirm, or even have added to my record/DD214?
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November 29th, 2011, 08:17 AM
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#7 | | Automatic Rifleman
Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Las Vegas
Posts: 140
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Navy Expeditionary Medal, Sea Service Ribbon, Expert Rifle, and Expert Pistol.
If you were awarded a medal and never received it, go to NPC website here. http://www.navy.mil/navydata/navy_legacy_hr.asp?id=149
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November 29th, 2011, 08:37 AM
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#8 | | Platoon Sergeant
Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: The hand of YHWH
Posts: 376
|  What decorations do you have?
Decorations, I don't even have a tree.
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November 29th, 2011, 01:03 PM
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#9 | | Platoon Commander
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: California
Posts: 532
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I got a plastic Santa and three plastic trees with colored lights and oh I was stuck in the 71st med 44 years ago today in Pleiku for my 21st birthday. A kind nurse stuck a warm can of beer under my pillow. 
FTA
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November 29th, 2011, 01:17 PM
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#10 | | Lifer | Quote:
Originally Posted by MJ1  I got a plastic Santa and three plastic trees with colored lights and oh I was stuck in the 71st med 44 years ago today in Pleiku for my 21st birthday. A kind nurse stuck a warm can of beer under my pillow.
FTA | If You Had Given ME 'A kind nurse' and EVEN 'a warm beer'---You Could Have Called ME A 'Malingerer' !!!
CAVman in WYoming
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November 29th, 2011, 06:09 PM
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#11 | | Designated Marksman
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Illinois
Posts: 579
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I love the last two posts.
Last edited by CHARLIED308; December 11th, 2011 at 05:35 AM.
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December 7th, 2011, 12:16 PM
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#12 | | Grunt
Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Port Orchard, Wa.
Posts: 100
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I have a Few.
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December 7th, 2011, 04:13 PM
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#13 | | Rifleman
Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: kevil,ky
Posts: 60
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Christmas!!!!!!
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December 7th, 2011, 05:45 PM
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#14 | | Old Salt
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Dixie
Posts: 1,846
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Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal
Vietnam Service Medal
National Defense
Vietnam Campaign Medal http://ussrainier.com/medals.html
7th
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