I have almost the same fruit salad as you. Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal, check. Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, check. Good Conduct Medal, check. I forget the name of the light blue one, I dont have that one but I always understood it to be an Iceland Northern Atlantic Nato thing.
Pretty much the classic set of ribbons for a Corporal with a few deployments under his belt from the late 70’s - early 80’s. So for you doubters out there, this isn’t one of those absurd fake veterans a la Jessie McBride, just a real Marine who volunteered to serve in the post draft era Corps, in that strange twilight at the end of the Cold War when we were
neither at peace nor at war, when The bamster was too busy to even send in his selective service registration card.
Yeah he has his chest hair sticking out of his shirt and a haircut we used to call “marginally regulation” thus proving his air wing bona fides but that was the way it was back then back in Kaneohe on his side of the base. At least he didn’t have the ‘stache thing going on like a lot of guys with relaxed Top’s did!
My Hitler Mustache grows straight out, not combed downunless it is 2 inches long!
the light blue and purpple ribbon is the Humanitarian Service Medal, Vietnamese refugeees in 1981, that pic is from just before I got out