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Short and sweet...

1. Can you refuse medals?
2. Can you return medals?

We've been discussing in the office, but seem to differ on opinion. What do you think?

I have read of soldiers returning medals but I think they were veterans. I have also heard you get the option to refuse LS&GC medal but not operational ones.
 
ZBM2 said:
Short and sweet...

1. Can you refuse medals?
2. Can you return medals?

We've been discussing in the office, but seem to differ on opinion. What do you think?

I have read of soldiers returning medals but I think they were veterans. I have also heard you get the option to refuse LS&GC medal but not operational ones.
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Off Topic Why would you want to?
 
Its a discussion I joined in on in work, plus I am interested to know.

Maybe someone who is still serving dosen't believe in the medal they've been award, or objects to what the medal represents.
 
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ZBM2 said:
Short and sweet...

1. Can you refuse medals?
2. Can you return medals?

We've been discussing in the office, but seem to differ on opinion. What do you think?

I have read of soldiers returning medals but I think they were veterans. I have also heard you get the option to refuse LS&GC medal but not operational ones.
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You made me smile with your format lines and Z code! Thanks. QRM:PDT_Xtremez_30:
 
ZBM2 said:
Short and sweet...

1. Can you refuse medals?
2. Can you return medals?

We've been discussing in the office, but seem to differ on opinion. What do you think?

I have read of soldiers returning medals but I think they were veterans. I have also heard you get the option to refuse LS&GC medal but not operational ones.
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My father and his entire ship's company returned a campaign medal in protest that it had also been awarded to people hundreds of miles away from the action. I'm not sure which campaign, I think it may have been Malay Peninsula but whichever it was he very much regretted the decision in later years.
 
As medals have to be applied for by the individual nowadays and not done automatically by admin, I don't see why, if you didn't want to apply for one, they could make you have one?
 
Warwick Hunt said:
As medals have to be applied for by the individual nowadays and not done automatically by admin, I don't see why, if you didn't want to apply for one, they could make you have one?
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Really? i've never done that, I just seem to appear on the list for the presentation in the Officer's Mess, that's my cue
 
I was down the Falklands in 92 and worked with a SNEC there who was at Ascension Islands with the Nimrods during the 82 conflict and he told me some of the boys on his sqn tried to turn down their medals because they felt they didn't deserve them due to being so far away from the actual war, and they were told no they had to accept them.
 
Warwick Hunt said:
As medals have to be applied for by the individual nowadays and not done automatically by admin, I don't see why, if you didn't want to apply for one, they could make you have one?
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I didn't think anyone applied for a medal these days, I thought it was all done automatically by the MOD Medal Office.
 
True Blue Jack said:
My father and his entire ship's company returned a campaign medal in protest that it had also been awarded to people hundreds of miles away from the action. I'm not sure which campaign, I think it may have been Malay Peninsula but whichever it was he very much regretted the decision in later years.
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That would be like the entire crews of Herpes and Invisible returning their Falklands medals ........ as they were somewhere in the Indian Ocean for most of the campaign :PDT_Xtremez_30:
 
I worked with a fishhead in the Falklands. They were told that they would have shore postings for a year afterwards but they were then sent to the Gulf within 3 months when the Iran-Iraq war was on. They all hoyed their medals overboard.

The ship's captain then called a parade and made every fcuker pay for new medals.
 
Climebear said:
ACSM still has to be applied for.
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Wow - the power of e-goat. Mention the ACSM yesterday and today the MOD announces that it has changed the criteria (reduced to 720 days)

Link thing: Qualifying time for Accumulated Campaign Service Medal reduced

The Queen has approved an amendment to the Accumulated Campaign Service Medal, with the qualifying time criterion to be reduced from 36 months (1,080 days) to 24 months (720 days).

Service personnel will now be eligible for an Accumulated Campaign Service Medal (ACSM) after two years of operational service instead of the three years previously required.

The change to the qualifying time criterion for the medal for members of the Armed Forces, MOD civil servants, and Contractors on Deployed Operations (CONDO) came into force on 1 July 2011, following approval from Her Majesty The Queen.

The Medal will remain unchanged but a new ribbon will be awarded...
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Another Mutley moment and opportunity to transfer some money to a medal mounting company (that'll be 2 in the next 12 months thanks to the Diamond Jubilee medal - still it will be something to spend the redundancy on)
 
You can chuck it in the bin if you want it
AFAIK the only medal that can't be removed from you is the V.C. you keep that no mater what you do even murder.
All others can be forfitted at Courts Martial


IIRC the Blues and Royals refused the GW1 medal as they were in Cyprus at the time and although entitled to it the Regiment refused to acept it.
 
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