TacHel

Another beautiful job! Well done!

Commemorative Decoration "50 Years of the Mobilization Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces"

Established on January 13, 2014 by ministerial order 50.

Awarded to military and civilian personnel as well as to veterans of the Mobilization Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation: for personal contribution to the development of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation; for diligence and initiative displayed during the performance of official or special duties, for the achievement of high performance indicators.

Looks great! As usual...

Beautiful uniform!

This is a little off topic, but this is a local Quebec ale. It's outstanding. It's brewed in commemoration of the old Royalist regiment that held Quebec for France.

It's brewed in Chambly just up the road from where I live...

Wow... I love personnal stories like this one. I had never before heard of the incident. Fascinating stuff! Thanks for sharing!

Very very nice! My fav are the Migs...

It does look exactly like a Russian Cross of St George 4th class mounted on the wrong ribbon.

Good lord... Using old stuff to create modern art just doesn't do it for me... Doesn't look like the feeding, it looks more like the conception!

A better look at the Chief Marshal of Aviation Kutakhov medal

Yup, a new one from the Defense Ministry...

Commemorative Badge "100 Years of Air Defense"

Established on November 14, 2014 by ministerial order 828.

Award document

To misquote Churchill without the rum they will be limited to the lash and sodomy.

Paul

That's why I joined the air force...

Even after reading this, I have no clue how to "wash"...

Looks awesome bud!

The "incident" happened on a small auxiliary coastal vessel mostly manned by reservists... This will definitely NOT improve relations between the reserve and full time sailors!

In my simple plain English...

WTF??

... unfortunately, all I have to base that statement on is the poster in post #1 of this thread.

And these more recent photos of the event winners...

I think the neck ribbon has been replaced by a standard Defense Ministry coloured one and that the medals were reduced in size and hung from the standard Russian pentagonal mounts, unfortunately, all I have to base that statement on is the poster in post #1 of this thread. The 4th to 6th medals from the right in the 2nd to last row.

A pic of a first place medal recipient

2nd place recipients

Sorry, no close up yet...

My first look at the tank biathlon medals. Info has proven a bit difficult to find.

Thay hang from a white silk neck ribbon.

My first look of the new medal ""Chief Marshal of Aviation Kutakhov"", best, actually only pic I've found so far.

Chief Marshal of Aviation Kutakhov

Beautiful!

Hi TacHel,

Until recently, some heavy mortar platoons in French infantry regiments were also double hatted with regimental band duties.

Don't ask me the logic behind this...

Regards

Bison

Andreas,

A musician "before" and/or "after" the war, but with a Knight of the Légion d'Honneur, Médaille Militaire, Croix de Guerre and Croix du Combattant... I very much doubt he served in that capacity during the war. Unless his baton had a bayonette fixture on it?

Well I'll be darned, I found 1 of them.

Definitely a musician or kapellmeister.

The center ribbon in the 4th row is a music related associative medal. CLICK HERE

Page 1 of the associative medals, 8th row down at far left, Médaille des Sociétés Musicales,

or

Page 3 of the associative medals, 19th row at far left, Médaille des Confédérations Musicales.

or

Page 4 of the associative medals, 15th row at far left, Médaille de la Confédération Musicale de France

They all have the same ribbon. I'd bet the very last ribbon is probably one of these also with the blue faded.

ADDENDA : Confirmation here

And HERE

... before 1963, the French ministerial orders used to be worn after all military medals...

Regards

Bison

I did not know that, great info! Makes the entire ribbon rack look OK. Bison, think the last 3 are music related medals from bands or church choirs?