Now, there are occosions when the senior guy may be wrong about PX medals.
When I was up for the E5 Board, the CSM said, “Soldier, you are out of uniform! You are wearing only one expert medal!”
“Yes, CSM! I am out of uniform!”
“Why?” Glancing at my 201, he read for a few moments, and said, “Nevermind - you can’t even buy a ladder rung for an FPK. Or most of the others you are qualified to wear.”
In other news, some talk, some don’t. Me, I never got shot at. So I got nothing to talk about.
(What’s in a truck?)
I served stateside. I helped move the Agent Orange onto the incinerator ships August 1974. Spring of 1977, March 17(?), I volunteered with a Dr. Byrd, Pathologist, from Keesler to help at Dover AFB with the bodies (Tenerife Accident)...one week of horror and taught me about volunteers. I worked the Geigers when someone came in claiming to have been picked up by Aliens....vis a vis October 11, 1973 at Pascagoula. Even though my service was stateside, I had more than enough experiences to tell...the saddest was unloading Marines and Soldiers coming to Keesler via the DC-9 Nightingales at night to be at a hospital close to home. These wounded were the last injured to come home from Viet Nam and Far Eastern Hospitals. I have great respect for those that were in combat but am proud of my service also.My ND, GCM, SAM, OUC, TnANG, and other non combat medals to me are priceless...but I don’t need to pad it...