They get the National Defense Medal at this time as well.
Yeah, but it’s mostly red. I can’t find anything similar to the one he’s wearing. It appears to be light in the middle. He wasn’t eligible for good conduct until a year of service((wartime) and he’d have had rank by then. He was 19 when he was discharged to be his gf’s caretaker.
I guess that begs the question of why he isn’t wearing the ND at this point, since it’s a gimme like the BMTS.