You can't introduce a three-year service medal, when you already have a 12-year service medal. The original Canadian Volunteer Service Medal represented service in the second world war. The only real viable way to use something similar closer to the present would be for specific conflict, so for example the Cold War (1945-1991), and the War on Terror (2001-an undefined date, probably the fall of ISIS), where if the member served for three years in that time frame they would be eligible. I guess we could be on to the Service Medal for Cold War II at this point.Meanwhile, Mr. Gringras proposes...
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Canada's honours and awards system only goes as far back as 1967, in that time a lot of excellent medals have been included in it that allows for not only military, but first responders and civic recognition. With that said, there are still gaps that we should be looking to fill and one of these gapwww.linkedin.com
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Blackadder1916
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Of course you can. Just write the regulations so that any period of service recognized by such an award does not affect eligibility for any other award, e.g. just the way that Australia did for its "Australian Defence Medal".
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That's how it worked in Australia. Those who already had long service medals received the Defence Medal including those who had been National Servicemen (conscripts).
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Thanks for the reminder McG. Again I'm only going off of of those mission assignments that I was aware of and/or could find somewhat easily. Part of the issue appears that some have been simplified under a common label in recent years but late 1990's deployments were all unique mission names.
Swiss Air crash I'm not sure how I would define it but was another good example of a unique mission that borders SAR and/or Security mission profiles. Most likely SAR based upon my shallow knowledge of events remembered from new articles on the opposite side of the country.
Definitely aware that some/many are missing and any insight is good.
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Don’t forget a YOUREWELCOME bar.
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I think something for people that finish their initial contract makes sense, but would be good to add some caveats like 'reached OFP'. We had a few people that never did, but were such an administrative mess they got some contract extensions while their court and medical issues were processed.
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I think that awarding the medal after the end of the first operational posting makes more sense. It signifies that the member was trained and did their job for 3-4 years.
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The US military launched a review of its medal system in response to the need to recognize contributions from capabilities that didn't exist before e.g., drone operators. We might want to do the same if, for no other reason, than to avoid 'medal inflation':
Medal Fatigue
After a bitter controversy over how to recognize the contributions those who fly drones stateside make to the fight against global terrorism, the Pentagon is undertaking a “comprehensive review” of the entire awards system. It’s long overdue.
Among Secretary Chuck Hagel’s first acts when he succeeded Panetta was to suspend the medal pending more review. By April, the man who had earned multiple Purple Hearts for wounds suffered as an enlisted infantryman in Vietnam rescinded the medal entirely, with a promise to create a drone “device” for attachment to other medals. Nine months later, there is still no device. Instead, Pentagon press secretary Rear Admiral John Kirby announced that Hagel had decided to order a “comprehensive review” of the entire awards system rather “than looking piecemeal at any specific one.”
This is the right call. While details are scant on what the review board’s mission will be, it’s time for a substantial culling of the current inventory of medals and ribbons, which is bloated because of parochial service interests and the creation of a plethora of peacetime medals 30-plus years ago. Further, we need a standardization of awards, instead of the present system where the same medals and devices mean different things depending on what uniform one wears.
Indeed, the controversy of the Distinguished Warfare Medal illustrates some of the shortfalls of the system.
Medal Fatigue - War on the Rocks
After a bitter controversy over how to recognize the contributions those who fly drones stateside make to the fight against global terrorism, the Pentagon
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Pragmatic thought: sticking an occasional gong on things like UAS operators, intelligence analysts, and SIGINT operators might also help show appreciation and retain people who otherwise have some other very compelling job opportunities in other government departments or agencies. If they feel like CAF has just stuck ‘em in a SCIF and forgotten them while they make operational contributions, they might look to see where else they could do that but be more mainstream within their organization, and have better compensation and working conditions.
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