Subject: 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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