Is this photograph a forgery ?

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
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

From: "Mark Test"
Date: 9/13/2004 6:42 PM Central Daylight Time
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"Kevin Brooks" wrote in message
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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