Military medals on jackets

[Joe Gondek]

My last duty station in the Army was "THE OLD GUARD" in Wash.D.C.
We wore full size on our dress blues and ribions on our class A uniform

I agree that if you earned them wear them

I do think that the miniture would look better on an Argyll and either one on a PC

[thescot]

Medals and badges are personal decorations, and even we Devil Dogs are permitted to wear them with our civilian attire. They are personal, and not exactly military or branch specific. With a plain khaki shirt, I will wear ribbons on occassion; with dress, the mini-medals. I don't even own the gongs.

I would never wear dress blues or a uniform-specific item with my kilt (or blue jeans, or a tee shirt, etc.), but even when I was on active duty (Christ was a corporal and Chesty was a pup), we sometimes wore our field jackets as long as there was no rank insignia or Marine Corps emblem on them. And I was an MP! (MPs were charged with enforcing dress regs.)

I am glad to see that our fellow Ji-reen is sensitive about proper wearing of the uniform, but it's OK with the commandant for former Marines (there are on ex-Marines) to wear their medals and badges. I even put on my rifle and pistol badges with the ribbons. They do not mark me as a Marine, only as one who has served.

You can look up the Scottish American Military Society and see their practices with regard to this. They--like us--are kind of picky about these things, too.

Semper Fi, oooh-rah, and goodnight, Chesty, where ever you are.

[macwilkin]

Point of Information:

http://www.hereditary.us/gent.htm

http://home.mira.net/~jmmc/wearing_medals.htm

Two good web sites which focus primarily on wearing medals and decorations with civilian attire.

Cheers,

Todd