[Terry Mross]

Actually, the National Defense award does come with a medal. During the Viet Nam war if you enlisted and completed basic training you got a ND medal. Well, everyone in the Navy got one anyway.

I was told you NEVER where them with civilian clothes or work uniforms unless you were on watch where you might greet the public. Now, keep in mind, the Navy has work uniforms that are, or were, identical to dress blues except there was no piping on the collar. You were allowed to wear the ribbons with this uniform. I never did but I saw others wearing them. But you NEVER wear ribbons with dungarees or utilities (green).

[EllaMinnow]

[bray]

Yaaaaawn is Coo coo for Cocoa Puffs!!! ABC is hardly the hostile press and he loses it??? It depends what the definition of medals is! What if he were a Republican? This guy is not going to make it to the Convention.....next!!!

Pray for W and The Truth

[Don Carlos]

I feel cheated that I didn't get my National Defense "medal". Snigger!

Air force semi-dress allowed one to wear ribbons on the short or long sleeve blue shirt worn without the blouse. Probably 20 percent did wear ribbons on their semi-dress.

As one ancient E-5 told me, it shows you "been there" far better than extra stripes do. This particular guy had 4 or 5 rows, including one I had never seen. It turned out to be a Canadian "Mentioned In Dispatches" he had earned while in the Canadian army during the Korean conflict.