As a new feature on No Man’s Blog, I’ve included my Air Force ribbon rack at the top of the blog post column. It is, in military terms, a basic summation of my 20 years in the United States Air Force. Each colorful rectangular chicklet represents one of the medals, awards, or other ribbons I earned during my time in service. I’m very proud of them. You can go here to see the Web site I used to create the graphic. It’s quite a nifty little gadget.
Left to right from the top, these ribbons represent:
- Defense Meritorious Service Medal
- Meritorious Service Medal
- Joint Service Commendation Medal
- Joint Service Achievement Medal with one device
- Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with two devices
- Air Force Good Conduct Medal with five devices
- National Defense Service Medal
- Air Force Overseas Short Tour ribbon with four devices
- Air Force Overseas Long Tour ribbon with one device
- Air Force Longevity Service Award with three devices
- Air Force NCO Professional Military Education Graduate ribbon with one device
- Air Force Basic Military Training Honor Graduate ribbon
- Air Force Small Arms Expert Marksmanship ribbon (rifle)
- Air Force Training ribbon
The information is accurate and comes directly from my DD Form 214 (certificate of release or discharge from active duty).
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How did you get the oak leaf on your JSAM? The site doesn’t seem to allow for it on any joint awards
Hell, Jim! It’s on my DD214, and I have the paperwork for it. So I took the initiative and used Photoshop to make the fix.
I can’t help it if the guy who made that site was too short sited to realize that some people might have multiple joint awards.
It kind of pissed me off, too.
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very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
Ummmm. What’s to agree or disagree with? What’s your point?