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I could agree with you, if you could communicate a clearly defined, concise message on what a "prerequisite time for a Medal" aside from what the medal itself states. And, if not, then why would you be opposed to "A nice Certificate of Service" with "12 years" written on it.

You have a point about "Special". And using "Special" as the criteria for that medal would make it a slight stretch to include any and all military service. But if the CD is off limits, then I thin it would be worth it. In our system I would say that excess service medals do cheapen other...

The point: If service in the CF is worthy of recognition then lets not be timid about it. Service doesn't automatically become meaningful at 12 years, and that is the problem with the current CD - What does it mark? - It marks when you get your CD (pointing that out doesn't diminish your 12...

If you mean regarding: Then yes, you did ask first. :) I can't seem to find out anything about this though: I haven't found an official site, everything I find refers to it as 18 years Extracted from (http://www.defence.gov.au/minister/Broughtpl.cfm?CurrentId=3952) Many of us who have...

From http://www.forces.gc.ca/hr/dhh/honours_awards/engraph/long_service_e.asp?cat=3. Why at 12 years and then every 10 years? I don't know, I was also hoping someone would have an answer. It doesn't seem intuitive from the awards the CD replaced. A summary (also from...

I'm not sure if you read that correctly - "Perhaps the Long Service award has seen its day, and recognitions should only be awarded for operational reasons." Does not imply that the CD is an operational award. The statement says that "Perhaps" only operational awards (meaning - awards for...

I'm not sure if you read that correctly - "it" refers to the CD, and "doesn't accomplish much" means that the CD only accomplishes the recognition of 12 years Long Service and Good Conduct. Don't read more into it than that.

Maybe it can't be recognized as broken because it doesn't accomplish much to begin with. It never occurred to me before to just stop awarding the CD but there seem to be some valid reasons: - It would save money from the actual award - It would save money because it wouldn't need to be...

If that makes sense to you, or you feel that it should not be contested, then I will not try to convince anyone otherwise in this thread. Check out the Norwegian Monarch's site http://www.kongehuset.no/default.asp?lang=eng for how the Norwegians handled the problem in 1905 when becoming...

I guess I should've included the option to get rid of the CD altogether. It does seem odd that it didn't stick with 12 year increments. That would seem to make more sense and also follow the traditional Long Service medals. Couldn't the same "Boy Scout" comment apply to the issue at 12...

Some people serve honorably, are never deployed, and leave before 12 years, why not have a medal that shows that they did serve in their nation's military? And, as a visible display of service, aren't there more meaningful intervals of service other than the 12th, 22nd, and 32nd years? How...

Well, in your opinion, which regiments or branches aren't up to the task because they lack the "Royal" adjective? Sure... I don't think anyone doubts that (note: Not having a foreign monarch does not automatically mean we would have a Republic, unless we wanted one). Besides, when it comes to...

Are you sure each Cdo didn't have an Aslt Pnr section (each with a platoon would make a company's worth of Aslt Pnrs), or each Cdo contributed an Aslt Pnr section to the Aslt Pnr platoon? And if so, can you remember what time frame that was in? True, an Aslt Pnr going from CAR back to their...

Odd, you would expect mortars to be there. A WW2 Royal Artilley Methods site http://www.hypospace.net/equipment/methods/maindoc.htm Anti-Tank troops would probably not be the way to go, but a dual Anti-Air/mortar troop?! Having dual howitzer/mortar units (or howitzer units that may be...

I wouldn't bother, this isn't what most people think it is, though you were close here: http://forums.army.ca/forums/threads/40500/post-344552/topicseen.html#msg344552 This is a form of advertising, plain and simple. Expect this advertising tactic to change slightly with an unknown new person...

Well... Its not that I don't see your point, there are differing opinions on what are the precursor events, the main events, and the "final-straw" events of the end of Imperial China. The Opium Wars and the Treaty obligations were huge consumers of China's wealth, Taiping and Nien prevented...

So much was going wrong for China all at the same time: Floods, Wars, Strife, and the final acceptance that the world had moved forward while China had not. There is no shortage of factors that go into the collapse of imperial China. A century of nothing but context, and there is no way to...

Perhaps "little wars" is a bit subjective as both a term and as the cause of the downward spiral. As well as the numerous "foreign adventures" (a completely subjective term) there was the Taiping Rebellion (how many millions of people need to die for it to be a "big war") and, if you weren't...

No, not inevitable. You don't have to call it a Republic if you don't want to, so somewhere between having a foreign monarch and having a Canadian, there should be a compromise. A line of thinking only a lawyer's mother could love. Well loads of people made a big stink about the GG holding...

Were the decisions the English/British took the result of a "vain quest" to make them uniquely English/British? I'm sure they made some decisions based on how not to appear French/Spanish/Portuguese/Dutch/Country X. But the amount of RN customs and traditions stemming from attempted uniqueness...