They should somehow figure out a way to consolidate all that into some thing that just says I'm a bad ass mfing General.
Right now it looks like he has too much flair. ;-)
Posted on 04/10/2008 8:52:30 AM PDT by hilaryrhymeswithrich
cool, thanks
They should somehow figure out a way to consolidate all that into some thing that just says I'm a bad ass mfing General.
Right now it looks like he has too much flair. ;-)
A friend of mines father a Air Force Lifer got shipped to Viet Nam because every Lifer had to go to Viet Nam. He spent his tour in charge of a detail, as a Senior Master Master Sargent, burning poop. There was nothing for him to do in his MOS, super secret development lab stuff.
The practice of high ranking military officers wearing a lot of medals goes back a long way. During the Battle of Trafalgar (in 1805), Admiral Lord Nelson was killed by a French sniper who had been told to shoot the British officer wearing the most medals.
Still though, he's doing alright and he deserves a lot better respect from a bunch of civilian journalist pukes.
apparently the LA version of (Ms.) Mark Morford of SF
OTOH, I see a strategy over there that’s working.
Hmmmm
Officers and Enlisted are encouraged to wear all of their authorized ribbons on dress uniforms, according to what I am reading in AR 670-1.
Not being Army (I was AF) I don’t know if they are required wear, but in the USAF all awards were REQUIRED wear when I got out of the service in 2002.
So whomever wrote that article is an Idiot.
I agree, some of the best German Commanders in WW2 were Staff Pogies, sometimes you need Brains and sometimes you need Balls, in this case we need Brains.
I would like to introduce the idiot that wrote this crap the business end of my USAF Instructor Badge.
so when did CIB become the CAB?
The military hands out a lot of medals and ribbons, in leiu of pay. General Petraeus did earn a Bronze Star, however. Nobody earns a lot of those kinds of medals, because they couldn’t survive many of the kinds of experiences required to earn them.
It was endemic among the O's and really pissed me off.
I just checked with some actual, real-life enlisted ARMY folks. I was told “Nope, ribbons are REQUIRED” on the dress uniform when the JACKET is worn”. More than one told me that so either I missed something in the regs or I misread something there.
Joanna: You know what, Stan, if you want me to wear 37 pieces of flair, like your pretty boy over there, Brian, why don't you just make the minimum 37 pieces of flair?
Stan, Chotchkie's Manager: Well, I thought I remembered you saying that you wanted to express yourself.
Joanna: Yeah. You know what, yeah, I do. I do want to express myself, okay. And I don't need 37 pieces of flair to do it. [flips off Stan]
Stop whining, sister. Nothing succeeds like success ... and Petraeus is succeeding.
It isn’t just the Army. Saw a midshipman at BWI airport late last summer. The young man was probably just back from his Youngster Cruise (ie. a returning sophmore coming back from his first trip with the fleet). He was sporting 2 complete rows of ribbons on his Class A whites. I recall during the late 70’s that Firsties had a SINGLE ribbon & that was the Vietnam Service ribbon given to anybody who served (up until about 1975 IIRC). So ribbon inflation is not just an Army-thing.
...I might add that the midshipman appeared to be too young to have been “prior enlisted”.
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