NG "deployment" to DC now rates specific ribbons

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Eliminatus
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2:50a, 3/8/21
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Can't make this stuff up I swear. A DC deployment is still more dangerous than a Kuwait deployment and rates at least one of two different uniform ribbons. (inside joke for those who have done tours overseas.)




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The District of Columbia National Guard Presidential Inauguration Support Ribbon, top, and the District of Columbia Emergency Service Ribbon. The D.C. National Guard plans to award at least one of two ribbons to all soldiers and airmen who supported the security mission before, during and after the 59th presidential inauguration in recognition of their service.
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/national-guard-troops-to-receive-ribbons-for-protecting-nation-s-capital-1.664628

What do you do when you have found to be a farce? Well, if you are a DC critter, you double down of course! Deployment ribbons for everyone!! Give it 20 years and the "vets of the 59th inauguration" fought down the crazed masses of racist Trumpers with bayonets, hand to hand techniques and steely resolve while protecting our sovereign leaders like the heroic AOC who was leading on the frontlines when they were overran.

Just thought this whole thing was humorous and wanted to share.
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3:19a, 3/8/21
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I wonder if they will get a SSI-FWTS and a CAB for going toe to toe with a man in a shaman costume?
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3:20a, 3/8/21
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Hard to laugh at what the techno-Marxists have done to us.
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4:04a, 3/8/21
should have saved the threads to make guidelines so that Biden can find his way around the White House.

red for the potty
white for the kitchen
blue for his bed

These are literal participation trophies.
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4:07a, 3/8/21
Do you have to wear those ribbons?
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In reply to FCBlitz • 5:15a, 3/8/21
We get shiny arm bands with cool numbers
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5:25a, 3/8/21
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Not the Joes fault. Some Colonel or CSM who hadn't deployed yet decided they needed some more bling to feel relevant.
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6:32a, 3/8/21
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If they actually saw the Shaman Guy do they get a 'V' for valor? I am a retired ARNG type so I completely get the BS factor on this. Many years ago in my RA 2LT days a grizzled ole NCO told me that the first 'medal' that means anything is a PH and that anything worn 'lower' than that is just BS. I have found that to be true over the decades. This latest 'RC Participation' medal set is another in a long line of BS.
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6:53a, 3/8/21
Should be ochre yellow bars with chunk vomitus device to commemorate the raw food they were fed by corrupt contractors with gray edging to commemorate the parking garage they slept in.
For these guys breakfast was a roll with juice box because the food was so bad.
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7:13a, 3/8/21
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Now the military is giving participation trophies?
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8:46p, 3/8/21
This is only for the DC NG. All other States that sent troops are not eligible unless their legislatures approve them.
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9:16p, 3/8/21
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Utterly embarrassing.

Equivalent to a project team having a T-shirt made to commemorate an IT project that was deployed (and most likely 6-18 months late to boot).
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In reply to BuddysBud • 9:20p, 3/8/21
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BuddysBud said:
Now the military is giving participation trophies?


My first thought
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10:54p, 3/8/21
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Trying to gain favor and loyalty of their 'chosen' military.

Leads us down a road similar to the SS
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10:57p, 3/8/21
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Well, they said POTATUS or his handlers might try to use 1/6 as another 9/11...but this is even worse. Sounds like he's trying to make this Vietnam.

Pathetic. I wonder what the rank and file feel about getting this special medal after being rucked up in a cold ass parking garage for a week, after being huddled for photo ops in the Capitol building during a "pandemic".
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10:58p, 3/8/21
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YGBSM!
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11:18p, 3/8/21
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Sounds similar to the Cold War Victory Medal

Only state NGs to authorized to wear them? Louisiana, Alaska, and Texas.


[url] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War_Victory_Medal[/url]
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11:19p, 3/8/21
What disability percentage can you tack on if your cell phone battery died and you were bored on the cold parking garage floor?
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In reply to BuddysBud • 1:10a, 3/9/21
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BuddysBud said:
Now the military is giving participation trophies?



Been doing it for awhile.
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In reply to BuddysBud • 2:20a, 3/9/21
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BuddysBud said:
Now the military is giving participation trophies?


Are you familiar with the National Defense Service Medal?
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6:03a, 3/9/21
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In reply to Eliminatus • 6:13a, 3/9/21
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Eliminatus said:
Can't make this stuff up I swear. A DC deployment is still more dangerous than a Kuwait deployment and rates at least one of two different uniform ribbons. (inside joke for those who have done tours overseas.)




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The District of Columbia National Guard Presidential Inauguration Support Ribbon, top, and the District of Columbia Emergency Service Ribbon. The D.C. National Guard plans to award at least one of two ribbons to all soldiers and airmen who supported the security mission before, during and after the 59th presidential inauguration in recognition of their service.
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/national-guard-troops-to-receive-ribbons-for-protecting-nation-s-capital-1.664628

What do you do when you have found to be a farce? Well, if you are a DC critter, you double down of course! Deployment ribbons for everyone!! Give it 20 years and the "vets of the 59th inauguration" fought down the crazed masses of racist Trumpers with bayonets, hand to hand techniques and steely resolve while protecting our sovereign leaders like the heroic AOC who was leading on the frontlines when they were overran.

Just thought this whole thing was humorous and wanted to share.
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6:21a, 3/9/21
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In reply to Scud Runner • 7:42a, 3/9/21
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Scud Runner said:
What disability percentage can you tack on if your cell phone battery died and you were bored on the cold parking garage floor?


Add that to sleep apnea eating they developed from getting fat eating leftover burritos.
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7:53a, 3/9/21
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Oak leaf cluster for getting the trots from bad food?
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7:56a, 3/9/21
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Military decoration system needs a massive overhaul. 90% of the medals and ribbons mean nothing.

We need to draw a line somewhere around MSM and punt everything below it. A medal just for PCS'ing!? GTFO.

There are kids a day out of basic/ROTC/OCS walking around with 3 ribbons on. Seeing somebody with no ribbons on their chest should be the standard, so that if you see somebody with a ribbon it should catch your attention.

As it stands now, even if somebody earned a DFC or a Navy Cross I wouldn't even notice it in that fruit salad of noise everybody has by their 6th year of service
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In reply to BuddysBud • 7:57a, 3/9/21
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BuddysBud said:
Now the military is giving participation trophies?
Has been for a while
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7:57a, 3/9/21
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In reply to SquirrellyDan • 8:40a, 3/9/21
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SquirrellyDan said:
Scud Runner said:
What disability percentage can you tack on if your cell phone battery died and you were bored on the cold parking garage floor?


Add that to sleep apnea eating they developed from getting fat eating leftover burritos.
50% rating for sleep apnea secondary to service connected hurt feelings is granted.
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In reply to Slyfox07 • 8:48a, 3/9/21
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slyfox07 said:
Military decoration system needs a massive overhaul. 90% of the medals and ribbons mean nothing.

We need to draw a line somewhere around MSM and punt everything below it. A medal just for PCS'ing!? GTFO.

There are kids a day out of basic/ROTC/OCS walking around with 3 ribbons on. Seeing somebody with no ribbons on their chest should be the standard, so that if you see somebody with a ribbon it should catch your attention.

As it stands now, even if somebody earned a DFC or a Navy Cross I wouldn't even notice it in that fruit salad of noise everybody has by their 6th year of service


Exactly! Just like participation trophies. If everyone gets a prize, what is the incentive to put in extra effort to win.

If real honors are lost in the noise of phony ribbons why make any extra effort?

Your example is a small example of how Marxism cannot succeed. If everyone gets the same reward regardless of effort, then there is no point in excelling. Effort eventually declines to the most lazy, incompetent person.

And supposedly smart professors, teachers, administrators, and "educated" professionals cannot seem to understand this basic flaw in their preferred political philosophy.
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8:53a, 3/9/21
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It's not the NG soldiers fault. They left paying jobs and families to DC at the orders of the ruling Leftists.

All in a fake narrative that somehow they are in danger inside the capital.
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In reply to Teslag • 9:07a, 3/9/21
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Salute The Marines said:
BuddysBud said:
Now the military is giving participation trophies?


Are you familiar with the National Defense Service Medal?
National Defense Service Medal - I was alive in '75!

replaced by the

Army Service Ribbon - Back for more in '84!

and since the first Gulf War, they brought the National Defense Service Medal back.

These are truly participation trophies, unlike the actual theater deployment medals for those who were put in harm's way.
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9:09a, 3/9/21

There should be a patch in the shape of a parking garage.

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In reply to AGHouston11 • 10:26a, 3/9/21
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AGHouston11 said:
It's not the NG soldiers fault. They left paying jobs and families to DC at the orders of the ruling Leftists.

All in a fake narrative that somehow they are in danger inside the capital.


No one is blaming the NG.
As you point out the fake narrative is what makes this ridiculous.
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In reply to Slyfox07 • 5:56p, 3/9/21
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slyfox07 said:
Military decoration system needs a massive overhaul. 90% of the medals and ribbons mean nothing.

We need to draw a line somewhere around MSM and punt everything below it. A medal just for PCS'ing!? GTFO.

There are kids a day out of basic/ROTC/OCS walking around with 3 ribbons on. Seeing somebody with no ribbons on their chest should be the standard, so that if you see somebody with a ribbon it should catch your attention.

As it stands now, even if somebody earned a DFC or a Navy Cross I wouldn't even notice it in that fruit salad of noise everybody has by their 6th year of service


Im going through this now at the end of our deployment for "tour awards". I have several four year TIS or so SPC's with 2 or 3 AAM's and an ARCOM, and all have been "earned" for reserve time annual training events. So for an entire deployment in Iraq the best I can throw their way is another AAM or ARCOM, and they are like "that's all?". It's completely broken.
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