[BuffaloJack]

What exactly is this BS with awarding medals and badges decades late?
A year and a half ago I finaly got (in the mail) a minor decoration from the Navy that I should have received in 1970 (my combat action ribbon). One of my buddies got his bronze star from the Army last summer (3 months before he died), he was an Cobra gunship pilot in 1967.
Are they clearing the books of long overdue stuff?
All I can think of is that some group of supply sargeants has been told to get off their duffs and give the guys what they've got coming.

[ICE-FLYER]

I share your grievance. I am in the late part of 19 years in and I have seen a lot of this. I consider ti a combination of a lack of leadership (Commanders failing to recognize their people) and the bureaucracy when people try to step up and get people recognized as well as combined with a record system that makes it difficult to obtain the proper records on people.