I’ve always resented watching Hollywood creeps wearing actual decorations in movies. I once got into a very heated argument with a co-worker when I expressed anger at watching Sean Connery wearing a CIB. My co-worker said it was necessary for realism, but I contend that most moviegoers wouldn’t know a CIB if it was stuck on their ass. In this age of ostentatious ignorance, “costume” medals will suffice for actors and their audiences.
Unless rules have changed, Hollywood is required to make at least one error in showing any actor’s military uniform in a film. This is often hard to discern and in movies by the Loathsome Left they make sure the uniforms are accurate so as to discredit the military. In lesser movies, the uniforms are so laughably wrong that it’s clear to any vet. Stargate SG-1 — the most noble in showing the military in a very good light — had the best-presented uniforms (although as a Navy vet I am not up on Air Force uniforms). In series like the awful “Emerald Point NAS” the ranks and uniforms were arranged by 10-year-olds.