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VANITY: Need Gift Suggestions for Military Promotion

Posted on 04/24/2013 4:58:41 PM PDT by Badabing Badablonde

I am totally clueless aboout this, but last week I got an invitation to the promotion and party for my cousin, who is being promoted to Colonel.

She has worked very hard for this and made so many sacrifices and is so dedicated, I would really like to give her something special not just for this accomplishment, but also because she has included me, and because she is working for me and my family. She has not asked for gifts and I know she never will, because she is like all of our brave military, and is proud to serve her country, and is thankful for the opportunities it has given her.

So my question is for events like this, do attendees give gifts? If so, what kind of gifts? What would have meaning? I was thinking about some kind of donation in her honor, but only if that is acceptable for this occasion. I just don't have a clue, and I'm wondering if the military was of doing this is different.


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To: Badabing Badablonde

I’m an Army officer and have never heard of any officers getting gifts for a promotion. The traditional promotion “party” is to go to a bar and get drunk, with the person that got promoted buying the drinks.


21 posted on 04/24/2013 5:23:20 PM PDT by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes

GOod to know. I don’t want to do the wrong thing and make her uncomfortable. And yes, there will be a party at some country club afterwards. SO maybe just making the trip would be meaningful to her, just being there.


22 posted on 04/24/2013 5:25:41 PM PDT by Badabing Badablonde (New to the internet? CLICK HERE)
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To: Badabing Badablonde

When my brother pinned on silver oak leaves, I got him one of these:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Barrack-Room-Ballads-and-other-verses-Rudyard-Kipling-1892-First-Edition-/390427996513

It is a gift of particular relevance for those who serve in the combat arms, or have spent time in Afghanistan.


23 posted on 04/24/2013 5:26:34 PM PDT by LouD
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To: Badabing Badablonde
As a female field grade officer in the Nuke functional area, she has never seen any combat and never will. She probably hasn't even been deployed the past 10 years.

By "patch envy", she probably means that she has no deployment patch on her right arm, so everybody knows the good Colonel has never deployed.

24 posted on 04/24/2013 5:27:43 PM PDT by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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To: Badabing Badablonde

The party afterwards is probably a short and sweet reception at the officers club, with punch and finger foods. There’s always some sort of little reception for things like this. It’s not really a “party.”


25 posted on 04/24/2013 5:29:16 PM PDT by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes

I guess for a colonel that’s kind of humbling when you are probably surrounded by patches in the Pentagon, and she’s been in since probably ‘84. It doesn’t decrease her commitment or sacrifice, though. Still think she’s da bomb.


26 posted on 04/24/2013 5:33:55 PM PDT by Badabing Badablonde (New to the internet? CLICK HERE)
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To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes

Wetting down sounds like more fun.


27 posted on 04/24/2013 5:34:22 PM PDT by Badabing Badablonde (New to the internet? CLICK HERE)
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To: All

These are good suggestions and something to think about. Thanks!


28 posted on 04/24/2013 5:35:23 PM PDT by Badabing Badablonde (New to the internet? CLICK HERE)
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To: Badabing Badablonde
Sorry to bombard you with posts but....

Let me clarify. If you want to get your cousin a gift for her promotion, by all means do that. Getting promoted to Colonel is a big deal.

I just meant that I've never heard of any officers getting a gift from other military members for a promotion. I suppose it's different for family.

As for the gift.... I have no idea. That kind of thing is not my forte.

Hope I helped.

29 posted on 04/24/2013 5:36:39 PM PDT by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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To: Badabing Badablonde

Pearl handled .44, or whatever it was that George Patton carried.


30 posted on 04/24/2013 5:37:38 PM PDT by ConradofMontferrat (According to mudslymz, my handle is a HATE CRIME. And I HOPE they don't like it.)
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To: SgtBob
I don't know what the bill was when I made E-6. There are lots of things about that night I don't remember. ;)

/johnny

31 posted on 04/24/2013 5:38:14 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Take them out, get em drunk and laid. But then again, I was just an EM.


32 posted on 04/24/2013 5:39:56 PM PDT by Tupelo
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To: Badabing Badablonde
COLT_1911 Memorial photo 2020Nighthawk-Centennial_zps8d8928dd.jpg

**************

Just a thought...

33 posted on 04/24/2013 5:40:19 PM PDT by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: mardi59

I can’t think of anything more useful than that.


34 posted on 04/24/2013 5:40:27 PM PDT by 0.E.O
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To: Badabing Badablonde
If she likes doing activities outside of her career and enjoys being with her female friends & relations, maybe do something “girly” such as a spa day. Give her a break from being “Colonel” for a few hours.
35 posted on 04/24/2013 5:41:25 PM PDT by twister881
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To: ConradofMontferrat
Ivory handles!

When asked about his “Pearl handle gun” Patton remarked that “Ivory handles are for pimps and queers.”

George Patton was such a diplomat.

36 posted on 04/24/2013 5:44:49 PM PDT by Tupelo
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To: Badabing Badablonde

A nice pen, durable, extremely functional aka fisher space pen guts....

I have a henderer investigators pen.....they are very nice and fit a duty uniform very well.

http://www.rickhindererknives.com/rick-hinderer-store/pens/titanium-investigator-pen.html

Brass, copper titanium, etc .... As an O-6 she will use a nice pen more than anything. The refills are fisher space pen so they will work in the field or the office.

Call Rick and tell him what your after, he may even have time to engrave it with her name from you and the date of presentation etc ...

Just a suggestion.... Congrats to the new Bird Colonel !


37 posted on 04/24/2013 5:44:53 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Tupelo

Weelll, Exccuuuuuse the heck out of me!

You are so right!

It’s late, I’ve been up since 0500, and a cocktail or two later, I’m not thinking straight.

They were Ivory.

But hey, getting back to the original idea, what about that as an appropriate gift for a senior officer? Am I right or what?


38 posted on 04/24/2013 5:51:01 PM PDT by ConradofMontferrat (According to mudslymz, my handle is a HATE CRIME. And I HOPE they don't like it.)
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To: Wings-n-Wind

Great minds think alike.

Best suggestion.


39 posted on 04/24/2013 5:53:19 PM PDT by ConradofMontferrat (According to mudslymz, my handle is a HATE CRIME. And I HOPE they don't like it.)
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To: ConradofMontferrat

He carried two in holsters and also a Cold General Officers model pocket pistol in his belt.

The belt guns were a Colt .45 model 1873 Army model. Nickle plated and engraved. He killed two Mexicans with it during the Pershing expedition into Mexico. He killed them in a face to face shootout.

He also carried a Smith & Wesson registered .357 magnum. Today the same gun is called a model 27. I think it was done up like the single action.

He said in the movie that no one but a pimp in a cheap New Orleans whorehouse would carry a pearl handled revolver.

Patton was actually wrong about that as some old West gunfighters did actually carry pearl handled revolvers.


40 posted on 04/24/2013 5:53:24 PM PDT by yarddog (Truth, Justice, and what was once the American Way.)
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