ITT: veterans of /k/, post your ribbon racks
Highest precedence medal wins, foreign awards also acceptable
I'll start with my bullshit participation trophies

Lazy datamining thread

>>63945828 (OP)
>just one national defense ribbon
The only one that would impress me is the Antarctic service medal.

Every single ribbon I have was a participation trophy. The last two are state awards, also I'm a pog.

>national defense ribbon
>global war on terror service
>meritorious unit ribbon
>some other participation trophy I can't remember

Thats it. I was more decorated as a JRTOC cadet. Was supposed to get a decoration before I got out but it fell through because a screw fell out of my Toughbook during a TDY. I kinda sucked

>>63947858
You have to earn marksman. No one in my flight got it. They must have chunked all of the astigmatics into one class.

i haven't updated my rack in a minute, but all im missing is my smalls arms star, and special duty.

What's the "stayed home and fucked your stripper wife while you were jacking off in a Qatari portapotty" ribbon look like?

>>63947732
Was just in Norway north enough and long enough to qualify, Im Army though so I have to check with leadership if the Navy we crosstrained with is actually letting us be awarded them.

>>63945828 (OP)
i feel sorry for anyone who's ever been issued any of this bullshit, with the exception of paul harrell who's actually proven himself to be the real deal.

Ur welcome for my cervix

>>63949585
A box of tissues and a $50 Onlyfans gift certificate

>posting identifying info
>for free

>>63945828 (OP)
>post your ribbon racks
no ribbons, but I won 3rd place in sharpshooting competition when I was like 12 years old, still have the trophy and medal around somewhere..

>>63949639
90% of military awards are this but with more window dressing.

Where can you get the directions on how to build the racks? Been working on updating a shadow box of my grandpas. Got some medals re-draped but haven’t really messed with the rack. A couple are in sad shape following the move.

>>63947732
Found this but no ribbon.

>>63950926
Ez rack builder, just put in what you have and it spits out a picture.

>>63950952
Oh nice! Thank you very much sir! I’ll look around. It looks as if I can order from here also. I appreciate this. I’ve been working on it with my mom. She’s done most the work but was really hesitant to mess with the rack, and some are falling apart.

>>63945828 (OP)
Why haven’t you deployed
>>63947858
Where did you deploy

>>63951583
>kosovo campaign
Based

>>63951583
>Iraq
>Syria
>Afghanistan
>Kosovo
Which was your best and worst deployment

>>63952390

Kosovo. Easy. Fun. Just patrolled all over, all the time.


I pretty much hated all the others but they are over now and I’ll probably never deploy again to some stupid place I regret ever having to go to

>>63952440
>Fun. Just patrolled all over, all the time
Were you SOF at the time? Were there a lot of mines?
>I hated all the others
Why

>>63951583
Long tabbed, prior enlisted, MI ossifer, not too many of those around...

Mine attached, need to update ncopdr tho

>>63949603
>I feel sorry, except for this guy who was a military dentist
ok

Confirmed

>we have officer ranks browsing and posting on /k/
Neat. Never knew. I guess this is partly why callouts against disinfo/misinfo are better articulated and more highly informed on this board.

>>63951572
>Why haven’t you deployed
I joined too late for regular deployments and was stationed at ABCTs that only go to Europe. The GWOT is long over dude, no one but SOF is guaranteed a deployment these days.

>>63951572
The first one was West Africa, which was super fun and engaging and my favorite one, and all the others were CENTCOM. The AFSM and HSM were from Allies Refuge, probably my most "earned" out of all the participation trophies

>>63952820
there are still deployments to Iraq and Syria

>>63952794
>No GWOT-SM
>NATO medal
>Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal
did you go to Bosnia/Albania? Are you in your 50s?

>>63952881
Almost 50, yeah Bosnia twice.

>>63952874
Yeah, for units that I'm not in.

>>63949593
That’s Arctic service. Antarctic service means going to the South Pole.

t. Icebreaker Coastie.

>>63952888
what was that like

>>63952897
what is your MOS

>>63953000
>CAR
were you in any big battles or was it just random small skirmishes from far distances?

>>63953031
A few raids, but mostly the small skirmishes.

>>63953049
what year? I was there in 2013 and only 1 platoon in my entire company got CARs, and it was because their convoy hit an IED.

>>63952921
Not bad, I was a 12B so I got lots of real world experience marking and clearing mines. Otherwise lots of guard duty and route recon.

>>63953057
2012

>>63953049
was it a really intense deployment would you say? or was it mostly quiet in 2012?

>>63953200
It was starting to wind down, we were being told the whole time that we would be some of the last to come through, but you already know how that went

>>63953274
not him, I was army infantry, we were in Zabul province 2011-2012. Same story here, Right after OBL died and the new phase of OEF started, it all shifted. We closed down two mountain OPs, and spent almost the entire deployment patrolling up and down highway 1 finding weapons caches and training ANA/ANP. Nothing ever happened to us except for a few IEDs an EFP and later, a green on blue attack. But none of that qualified for a CIB.

>>63952966
11b, now 35n

>>63950934
How many days in that area?

These are apparently from my great grandfather's career. Can anyone recognize them?

>>63949593
If you were at least torch to main body departure, yes we are working on it. But no, "leadership" up at BN ain't going to do shit unless it's done for em. Hopefully we get it done before we finish getting fired. No promises, as the fucks to give are running out.

>>63953834
I was never there. I found the plaque in my grandpas stuff. I’ll ask my dad if he knows any more about it. My Grandpa talked about it once when I was little. Just about the cold and how your body makes heat and you have to trap it. He said he kept one of the Navy jackets with the fur. When I was little he would also talk to the people at the station in Antarctica on HF radio. He had a big antenna you’d have to crank up in the sky first. He was out of the Navy by then. This was M.A.R.S. radio personal traffic for the people there. In 1970 he was still in the Navy though so I’ll ask if we know any more about it.

>>63950926
>Philippines Defense Medal with a star
Wow, gramps saw some shit.

>>63953852
Based

>>63953852
Army good conduct medals + ribbon (right), American Defense Service ribbon (center), and a Europe-Africa-Middle East campaign ribbon with three bronze service/battle stars (left)

Was MI nerd for 10 years, NDSM bronze star when.

>>63956393
do they even still issue the NDSM anymore?

>>63956419
That's the joke. If they authorize it again for whatever upcoming war, those that had it before will get a bronze star lol.

Still funny to see new soldiers with just the gay pride ribbon.

>>63956455
>Still funny to see new soldiers with just the gay pride ribbon.

6 years of nothing ever happens
Guess the MOS

>>63956455
I work at a college and went to a memorial day event in blues with one of my work-study kids who's in the Marine Reserves. Dude's been in for like two years now and doesn't have a single ribbon. I felt so bad for rack mogging him in front of the whole school considering I'm a gigapog

Oops, forgot the good boy award knot that's always sold out at clothing and sales

>>63952496
a tip o' the fedora to a fellow Master Driver chad

>>63956491
Gotta be 11b

I also have fish (earned on an SSN) and a deterrent pin with star (from an SSBN ofc). Not really winning anything with this but I've at least done something.

>>63953852
Thank you so much!

>>63949585
Jody needs a participation trophy too

>>63956579
Nope, tanker

>>63955706
He was one of the Navy blue jackets. The Japanese destroyed their PBY’s and they ended up fighting in the jungle. I think his blue jacket uniform is in a museum in Texas at a university. He was eventually evacuated via submarine to Australia. They called them the battling bastards or Bataan.

I haven't done shit

>>63956484
A friend of mine did 6 years in the marine reserves as an 0311. The only awards he had I believe were just the good conduct medal and ndsm. He never deployed so I don’t even know if he got the GWOT sm

>>63956608
where did you sail? Have sex with many south east asians?

air guard

>>63945828 (OP)
Nowadays everyone has 1000 ribbons. None of this shit means literally anything, you retarded zogbots.

>>63957065
Just to clarify, they wanted the uniform because they are rare. They were Navy khakis they tried to dye green in theatre for jungle warfare. It didn’t work great and they came out a messed up blue color. I guess not many examples survived. I didn’t realize I made it sound like they wanted it because it was his.

>>63954263
Holy shit? Fellow ARAC anon? I was mainbody - trail.

>>63957484
In Alaska, I’m guessing.

>>63957979
Oops, got the black and white reversed. I retract my Alaska guess, and replace it with McMurdo log flight guess

>>63957827
That's really impressive, I've read the stories about how the sailors fighting on Bataan were so awful at fighting that they accidentally tricked the Japenese into thinking they were being baited by the sailors who were just pretending to be retarded.
I hope your grandpa left a memoir, as a researcher of Bataan it's almost impossible to find regular accounts of the actual battles, only the death march

>>63957401
I never got the chance to pull in anywhere cool. Closest thing to a foreign port I saw was Jacksonville. I did sail some cool places but I'm pretty damn sure we aren't allowed to give specifics about that.

Croatia, homeland war ribbon, its the only one I kept I threw the rest into a river (wounds, bravery).

no New York 109th

>>63958527
Moj stari je bio u domovinskom ratu. Četvrta. Pobiga s razarača u Lori i pridružio se među prvima u četvrtu. Tuđman mu je osobno dao pištolj kao nagradu. Do kraja života mu neću oprostit sto je dao taj pištolj policiji.

Yes. You'd be surprised who lurks in dark places here. As I've said, don't get your hopes up, as that ribbon requires a bunch of tards to do their job that we can't do all of for them... But I hope you've had a gud taim and were at least able to go out or get some good pics from the air to remember the last hoorah.

>>63957945
>>63959406

>>63958806
Where were you in Afghanistan

>>63958806
>2 deployments
>USMC
why don't you have a car?

im gay

>>63953066
1/8, 1/1, or 2/7?

>>63960239
2/7

>>63959930
Not him, do have my CAR, but if you're platoon Sgt or comander didn't like you then your paper work could get lost. Conversely, if you were going to be lifer then maybe some paper work for a bullshit TBI Purple Heart which should have gotten lost made its way to the BC's desk.

I won't say his name, but if you were with 1/1 in 12 then you know who I'm talking about.

My pog stack. I don’t think I forgot anything

>>63960243
Hope the rest of your Christmases were spent in better places.

>>63960274
So far so good, I'm hoping it stays that way until the day I die

>>63955251
Sounds like my grandpa. He did all sorts of cool stuff for Lockheed in his younger days. He had ham radio antennas in the trees at his house. I wish I got to talk to him about his adventures before he died.

>>63945828 (OP)
I know guys who evaded taxes well in the leaf army. He dumped everything into crypto and hired a lawyer on retainer for when he got caught. He got away with it for over 10 years he owned nothing on paper so he got off free then immediately went back to not paying taxes. Last I heard he'd fled the country and retired.

yeah

>>63960254
>if you're platoon Sgt or comander didn't like you then your paper work could get lost.
does this really happen? They will fuck their own Marines over like that?

>>63960274
there are people who subscribe to the concept of semper i, fuck the other guy, yes

>>63960609
Office politics without the benefits of working in an office. Same thing happens in the corporate world. If you and your boss aren't on the same page about priorities both personal and professional then you'd better be ready to find somewhere else to work.

>>63960261
mos?

>>63961530
0511

>>63961593
how was the meu, did you get a lot of work?

>>63961601
Maybe I put the wrong ribbon there, but it was for being stationed in Oki

>>63960261
How do you do, fellow POG
>still assmad my NCO's got NAMs as end-of-tour awards and all I got was a flimsy handshake

>>63961982
Based

>>63949603
Niggers and notrainings do that.

I had to go through an academy where I was literally tortured. Hooked up to a car battery, drowned, and attacked by attack dogs. I wish I were joking. I feel like those parts were unnecessary but at least they put you through a course of fire and you have to maintain firearm certs 4x a year.

I’ve been a Marine reservist for a year. I have nothing, and no future deployments in sight. Sigh..

>>63957995
>McMurdo log flight
That's pretty cool honestly

I JUST WANT A FUCKING CIB AND DEPLOYMENT PATCH AAAAAAAAAAA

been all over Antartica and Greenland

Carrier anon.

Haven't done a lot except a rotation to eastern europe and a humanitarian "deployment" to NC during the hurricane. Trying to go ranger and airborne this year but we'll see

>>63945828 (OP)
Did 3 years and got out with 100% va rating

>>63945828 (OP)

>>63963105
oh shit sorry. didnt mean to post a such a yuge pic

>>63958527
Tell us your story

>>63962987
What year? I did DF 80, 81, 82, 83, 85, and 86.

>>63962923
I deployed and didn’t get a CIB. As others have said, I think it’s because my platoon sergeant didn’t like me. Tell me how myself and 1 other (who my PSG also didn’t like) from my platoon came home without a CIB when everyone got them, and we were all together the entire deployment?

>>63963084
thank you for your service

>>63963105
your unit citation doesn't belong in your stack..

2016-2020- 2023 years on the ice
nothing has changed but we have internet now in Mcmurdo in 2023

Apparently we retroactively rate a couple of other participation ribbons, but, I was EASed and living life at that point.
>>63945836
They know it's me between my IP, and the fact that I'm calling any glowies ITT big gay double niggers.

>>63966062
Puns aside, is McMurdo a genuinely cool place to go/work or does it suck ass? I've heard it's not as good as it used to be.

>>63967101
>EAS
>no good conduct medal
What did you do

Should I try to join the air national guard?

>>63945828 (OP)
The only cool thing I have us my NATO Sea Guardian Ribbon from '22-'23

>>63945828 (OP)
The only cool thing I have us my NATO Sea Guardian Ribbon from '22-'23.

The only cool thing I have us my NATO Sea Guardian Ribbon from '22-'23

>>63968262
Can you come up with any reason not to?

>>63968475
Well its blurrier than I thought it was going to be

>>63968475
It’s le hard
I’d have to get a gay haircut
If a war breaks out I could end up on liveleak
The pay isn’t great

>>63968531
And if that's enough to keep you away then yeah you should keep away. It really is what you decide to make of it though, at least in my career.

And obviously I can't speak to the chairforce but my expirience with them is that I spent 4 months in Spain and my childhood best friend who went AF while I went navy happened to be stationed there two weeks before I pulled in and I spent a lot of time with him on the air side of the base. It was almost entirely airmen crying that their life was hard because they had to stay on base for one 12 hour shift a month and play pool, vidya, and grill steaks. My friend actually had his hair grown out and a beard because they only called him in once a month, and that dude was active duty/forward deployed.

>>63968563
>stay on base for one 12 hour shift a month and play pool, vidya, and grill steaks.
B-But I thought we were going to do drills and PT for 4 days?

>>63968262
Become a Home Town Hero

https://youtu.be/3cbosksPxpI?si=DkkWQmafiE3lbQxg

>>63968253
Turned an ass-chewing from a Corporal into a shouting match on a Friday. Platoon commander was on OOD on Saturday, caught me smoking on the catwalk and drinking underage. Saying "yup" instead of "yes sir" didn't help. Live and learn, rah.

>>63969991
extremely based and PFC-pilled

>>63949658
>>63949580
>>63951583
>>63952794
What are the chicken legs for?

>>63945828 (OP)
Uh I still don't have a dress uniform but I have a NDM and a Army achievement medal. Yeah ....

>>63970175
What the fuck how

>>63970166
They're supposed to be oak leaves, each one denotes a second, third, etc. award of the medal.

>>63968494
glue your devices down nigga that shit looks completely ate up

mcmurdo is a shithole bad food, bad people , bad scientists I also just got a medal for the prison strike up here In New York

>>63970449
Is anywhere on the continent worth visiting?

>>63970030
Yeah, I was kind of a retard back then. Lost count of the Page 11s I got. I'd rather have been caught doing that than the immediately OTH/BCD tier shit, though.
I didn't really grow up until I was almost out.

>>63945828 (OP)
>I'll start with my bullshit participation trophies
thats all they all are. i know a captain who took shrapnel on the way to the showers and got a purple heart and sent home. i walked to the same showers, why didnt i get the Handy Wound™?

>>63975222
Because its fun and looks cool. I was 5 years in a euro force and left with no cool colourfull stuff on my uniform except my rank. Just military hospital stuff I guess, not much “action”. Did meet a lot of exchange officers though.