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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: military inflation
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Date: Tue, 3-Apr-84 08:43:31 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  3 08:43:31 1984
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The reporter who wrote the story about the plethora of medals in the Granada
invasion failed to detail just what those medals were.  Whenever a person
in the service is sent to someplace outside the country, they are given
a medal to show that they served in some theater of operations.  The
greatest proportion of the medals for Granada were campaign medals or
ribbons as we used to call them.  They only mean that you were there.
If you serve in West Germany, you get a medal.  If you serve in Japan,
Korea, Nam, or any other foriegn area, you get a medal.  You don't have
to do anything other than be there to answer roll call.  As for the medals
given out to those who never left the states, they are most likely "good
job" medals.  One of these medals and 20 cents will get you a cup of
coffee.  I am sure some of the other extra medals were for actions while
in a combat situation.  I doubt, however, that there were too many of those.

Please do not jump to conclusions about the medals being handed out
just because some two-bit reporter failed to tell the whole story.  The
reporter was probably one of those nerds who tried to twist the
students stories to fit his/her preconceived ideas about the Granada
invasion.
T. C. Wheeler