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Special Service Medal - Domestic Operations Bar

The honours system in the RCMP is glacial and not used as often as it could be- bouncing between levels and review. But the problem is MOSTLY unfamiliarity or disinterest in filling
Out the forms. The majority of things that should result in awards are never nominated- which is a leadership culture issue.

The OIC certificate and coin process is two emails and often doesn’t even include the OIC until the certificates need to be signed in a good portion of cases.

The formal process is slow to where it really doesn’t super help with morale and recognition- being measured in years. The coin and cert can recognize in weeks if it needs to. But it’s not viewed as being especially valuable by most recipients after they see the volume of issued certificates.
 
Anyone else think there should be other ribbons for the SSM like with other medals? That would solve a few problems. Like an expedition ribbon with operation bars, a NATO ribbon, maybe theatre ribbons like Southwest Asia. That would allow the standard SSM to more easily be used for domestic operations as well as Alert and Rangers.
 
Maxman1 said:
Anyone else think there should be other ribbons for the SSM like with other medals? That would solve a few problems. Like an expedition ribbon with operation bars, a NATO ribbon, maybe theatre ribbons like Southwest Asia. That would allow the standard SSM to more easily be used for domestic operations as well as Alert and Rangers.
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Our honours and awards is a bit of a dogs breakfast.

There are, in some cases, 4 different medals for the exact same operation.

I would be a fan of less medals with more bars to denote operations.
 
Maxman1 said:
Anyone else think there should be other ribbons for the SSM like with other medals? That would solve a few problems. Like an expedition ribbon with operation bars, a NATO ribbon, maybe theatre ribbons like Southwest Asia. That would allow the standard SSM to more easily be used for domestic operations as well as Alert and Rangers.
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I've participated in two DOMOPS, fairly modest roles TBH, and never thought that a medal or bar was appropriate.

However, it would have been nice if someone had at least said 'thankyou', a letter even, and then paid me sooner than 4 months after the event (because apparently we still can't figure out how to transfer a Class A member to Class C within the span a single business quarter) ;)
 
daftandbarmy said:
I've participated in two DOMOPS, fairly modest roles TBH, and never thought that a medal or bar was appropriate.

However, it would have been nice if someone had at least said 'thankyou', a letter even, and then paid me sooner than 4 months after the event (because apparently we still can't figure out how to transfer a Class A member to Class C within the span a single business quarter) ;)
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I too did for one OP LENTUS - literally did my day job then went and did a few hours after at the UMS set up. Don't think I need an SSM for that and certainly didn't put in enough time to qualify, but the folks that were out sandbagging and helping farmers bunker up their farmhouses, doing waterway searches, those that came across a huge illegal grow op while not armed, etc, should get a something.
 
.....we ( the Army) still can't figure out how to transfer a Class A member to Class C within the span a single business quarter....
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Been like that for decades. The RCAF fingered it out decades ago.
 
Rifleman62 said:
Been like that for decades. The RCAF fingered it out decades ago.
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skin game archer GIF
 
I was curious as to how many domestic operations were occurring in Canada. Some I've deployed onto with CAF staff present and I've heard of many others - mostly wildfire and flood responses via Operation LENTUS but spent some time to look up as many as I could locate:

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Now I know I'm missing older deployments pre-2000. Locally about 15km from where I sit a CAF member was killed on wildfire response in the 1950's and there have been others over the years as well especially in the Search and Rescue field.

But overall it's been a busy couple of decades for the CAF and to share some persepective:

Here's the deployments by rough catagory:
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And here's the deployments by Year:
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Unfortunately I don't have access to the number of CAF personnel involved as not all public facing missions list the number of staff. Same with many missions not including details as to which province/territory was involved. Some were in the thousands of CAF members...others less than a dozen. But all were called out for specific taskings above and beyond regular training and garrison duties.

Revised for stupid spelling mistakes by author

foresterab
 
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Booter said:
Why is “Arctic” spelled incorrectly across all of those tables? Is that a thing?
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I had a Franco with really poor English who worked for me spell Arctic that way. He also pronounced the word "Artic" as well. I never had the heart to correct him LOL
 
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