Re: Is this photograph a forgery ?

[ArtKramr]

>Subject: Re: Is this photograph a forgery ?
>From: "Bob Coe"
>Date: 9/12/2004 11:53 AM Pacific Standard Time
>Message-id: <mW01d.24218$ni.24120@okepread01>
>
>"Mark Test" > wrote
>> ...Also, he was missing his "get out of basic"
>> ribbon too, why wasn't that in his record!!!
>
>In the early 70's there was no basic training ribbon, and the
>National Defense was all you got. Then when the National Defense
>ribbon went away in 75, they came out with the basic training
>ribbon so the kids would have something to wear.


Actually my service record had one more award than I knew I had. It included a
battle star for the Battle of the Northern Appernines. I never realised I had
that battle star until I saw it on my service record on sparation.



Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
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http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

[B2431]

>From: "Mark Test"
>Date: 9/13/2004 6:42 PM Central Daylight Time
>Message-id: >
>
>"Kevin Brooks" > wrote in message
...
>>
>>
>> But isn't that ONLY if you were assigned to that vessel when it won the
>> award? You get assigned to the USS Duckwaddle in 2000, which has a PUC
>> dating from, say, 1991 and ODS, and then when you later get reassigned to
>> shore duty in Iowa you would continue to wear that PUC? I don't think so.
>>
>> Brooks
>>
>Yes, that's true. My point was that apparently in the Army and Air Force
>when you transfer from the unit, you no longer wear any of their unit
>awards.
>
>I wear a Battle "E" from PELICAN (MHC-53) 'cause I was onbaord when
>the ship got the award...I wear this ribbon forever, even though I've long
>since transferred.
>
>Mark

Actually both the Army and Air Force require you to wear unit ribbons earned
while you were assigned for the rest of your career.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired