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Oilwellian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 10:35 PM Original message |
An interesting comparison of military medals & ribbons worn by various generals |
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Fresh_Start (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 10:39 PM Response to Original message |
1. Do you think its overcompensation? |
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soothsayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 10:42 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. I think it's hilariously juvenile (like kids with stickers) but that's just me |
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rockymountaindem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 10:41 PM Response to Original message |
2. There are a lot more medals to be won these days, though |
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Oilwellian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 10:50 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. I take it you didn't read the entire article |
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Poiuyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 10:45 PM Response to Original message |
4. There are some enormous egos here |
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Spazito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 10:48 PM Response to Original message |
5. It seems to me they should wear only those ribbons, honors they |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 10:50 PM Response to Original message |
6. Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, USMC, won two Medals of Honor. |
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HowHasItComeToThis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 11:50 PM Response to Reply #6 |
17. HE SEEMS LIKE AN HONEST ONE. |
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karlrschneider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 10:55 PM Response to Original message |
8. Who the fuck spends the time necessary to pin all that shit on a shirt? |
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Oilwellian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 10:57 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. LOL Karl |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 11:51 PM Response to Reply #8 |
18. You pin them all to a little piece of cardboard |
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usaftmo (606 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 12:19 AM Response to Reply #8 |
21. My "shit" is 4 rows, |
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karlrschneider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 05:41 PM Response to Reply #21 |
28. I threw away all that shit as soon as they gave them to me. |
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usaftmo (606 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 08:03 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Did you also throw away the points you get when |
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Crabby Appleton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 06:35 PM Response to Reply #8 |
29. The ribbons are attached to a mounting device called |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 11:16 PM Response to Original message |
10. Great post! |
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Oilwellian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 11:43 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. My exact same response |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 11:19 PM Response to Original message |
11. If I wore all my 4-H medals, these guys would look like privates LOL |
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knight_of_the_star (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 11:21 PM Response to Original message |
12. Here's another one |
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KG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 11:22 PM Response to Original message |
13. diiference between ike and petreus relects the rise of militarism in the US |
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Oilwellian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 11:42 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Exactly KG |
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KG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 09:40 PM Response to Reply #14 |
31. I remember it well, captured on film! |
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Oilwellian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 10:16 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. Well looky there... |
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snot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 11:43 PM Response to Original message |
15. The longer the medals, |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-04-07 11:56 PM Response to Original message |
19. *some* of this is not their fault (though it wasn't Brezhnev's fault either) |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 07:42 AM Response to Reply #19 |
27. Breshnev to my knowledge was never a Marshall of the Soviet Union |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 12:19 AM Response to Original message |
20. I'm counting 10 for Petraeus and 15 for Brezhnev |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 07:41 AM Response to Reply #20 |
26. Brezhnev |
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OneBlueSky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 03:31 AM Response to Original message |
22. although my dad had been awarded more, he never wore more than six . . . |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 03:57 AM Response to Original message |
23. The difference in the size of the stars on their shoulders is amazing. Ike's are so modest! |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 04:02 AM Response to Original message |
24. EXCELLENT post!!! |
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14thColony (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 06:01 AM Response to Original message |
25. This has become a joke |
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Oilwellian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 10:15 PM Response to Reply #25 |
32. Very interesting 14th Colony |
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