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Furniture said:Except it's not so clean as you present it. I'm Air DEU, but spent 7 month in Kandahar with D Bty 2 RCHA driving Bison, and doing 'army", "combat arms" things alongside gunners. Right beside us were Comms Research, Vehicle Techs, Med Techs, etc. We all got the same gold star for attendance.
Air DEU but purple trade so maybe not the best example. What Brihard said is very true for Air Ops types; AERE Os, AVS/AVN/ACS/AWS folks all stay back at HOMEPLATE. They don't go off on the mission like you would did with the guns, and if you were deployed to IMPACT you wouldn't have flown with the fighter, LRP or AAR folks on their missions.
Like D&B said, we should award medals by theatre.
We do already. Examples:
General Campaign Star - SOUTH-WEST ASIA (GCS-SWA)
in the theatre of operations consisting of the political boundaries of Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman, the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the Suez Canal, and those parts of the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea that are west of sixty-eight degrees East longitude and north of five degrees South latitude, as well as the airspace above those areas
General Campaign Star - EXPEDITION (GCS-EXP)
- within the political boundaries and airspace of Iraq; and/or
- within the political boundaries of Syria, its airspace and territorial waters
Operational Service Medal – Sierra Leone (OSM-SL)
The OSM with SIERRA LEONE ribbon is awarded for 30 cumulative days of service in Sierra Leone...Primarily intended for CAF members who served with the British-led International Military Advisory and Training Team (IMATT) following the Lome Peace Agreement (Op SCULPTURE).
Pretending your service is more important, more dangerous, etc. is just ego fluffing most times.
Some trades in the CAF ARE more dangerous than others; some deployments are more dangerous than others. It has nothing to do with ego fluffing; a cook doesn't face the same dangers as a SAR Tech or a Clearance Diver daily here in Canada. Some deployed areas are more dangerous than others, and that's got nothing to do with MOSID specifically.
Nothing to do with ego, lots to do with 'reality and facts'.
I do find it amusing when an Army DEU guy looks down on my "KAF" time because I wear a blue suit though...