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    1. Ed_Haynes
      I wish I wish I wish. But most current Afghan military types don't DARE wear their real ribbons, as they date from the Elder Days. PDRA types have to keep their service very silent. How I wish, mate, how I wish!
    2. Ed_Haynes
      Stretch? S . . . t . . . r . . . e . . . t . . . . . SNAP! Clearly, no one knows, no one cares,
    3. Ed_Haynes
      What is that old song? "When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near"? Hoping to get two uniforms to match up with Mongolian medal groups I have, so am I forgiven?? Have some Soviet ones too, some posted out in public, others in secret.
    4. Ed_Haynes
      Wisdom, please. (On something pretty marginal to my interests.)
    5. Ed_Haynes
      Label, inside (wearer's) left breast pocket.
    6. Ed_Haynes
      Collar tab closeup.
    7. Ed_Haynes
      Going through some long-forgotten closets, some even-longer-forgotten things surface. Comments? (Apologies for the "soft porn" of the mannequin. )
    8. Ed_Haynes
      Well . . . on one side, it still has the same initials, Rick.
    9. Ed_Haynes
      Have done everything buy disassemble the tunic but . . . no. A half-cigarette in one of the pockets, though. So maybe DNA testing?? The awards must be pretty distinctive, but my research skills with natives (of the British Isles) are limited.
    10. Ed_Haynes
      Oh . . . sorry. Contemporary. Post-Taliban. Karzai era. Shall be VERY collectible for the next generation?
    11. Ed_Haynes
      Given my interests, the main attraction lies in the ribbons and in the medal group they represent. Can't have been many ca. 19348 RAOC captains with WWI MM, 1914 Star and clasp, MiD, service in India, GV jubilee, and a LSGC?
    12. Ed_Haynes
      What I think (?) is the abortive 1938 blue patrol, for a RAOC captain. Unform went away with the war. Not 100% sure the collar badges are original.
    13. Ed_Haynes
      And. Indications of some fast promotions? Not surprising, I guess.
    14. Ed_Haynes
      Not as if anyone cares as much as I do, but here are a few more photos.
    15. Ed_Haynes
      There are, I believe, a number or privately designed and privately produced "Cold War" commemorative medals, from various manufacturers, filling this "gap". While there is a sort of quasi-official "nod" to this one, it is among that vast swamp of unofficial "commemorative" medals for those who feel they need just one more to pump up their chests.
    16. Ed_Haynes
      Thanks for this, "sabrigade". We need to record such information before the memories fade.
    17. Ed_Haynes
      Right-oh, the Garaj Star. See: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=14729 The "Suraksha" clasp for the Special Service Medal covers "Blue Star", but the Garaj Star is just for "Black Thunder". A very restricted issue. I have it on good authority that some day a book will be issued that addresses this rarity. Amost always, it is just worn on the ribbon bar, but some very brave (= foolish) folks.
    18. Ed_Haynes
      Interesting, if somewhat scary, numbers. Thanks for tracking this, Bob.
    19. Ed_Haynes
      While his honorary award probably wasn't gazetted, I've looked, but the recent revision of the online London Gazette makes searching a worse nightmare than it was before.
    20. Ed_Haynes
      Important wisdom here, Jeff. Thanks! Sometimes "collectors" forget how the world functions?
    21. Ed_Haynes
      For the record, Eugene has already contacted me. I look forward to posting the goodies when they're in hand. We all know that "things" happen. Let us, however, please, try to leave squabbles from other fora out of our discussions here. Please.
    22. Ed_Haynes
      People can call themselves what they want to. It won't make it legal or kosher. Ed First Death-Lord of Pluto
    23. Ed_Haynes
      Well, there's Cuba too, or so I am told. http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=14236&st=04
    24. Ed_Haynes
      Actually, the answer is still no. As the award was given when he was a Soviet citizen, he could not retrospectively have been knighted. Yes, the question is so hypothetical: "Had Zhukov been kidnapped to Pluto by aliens in 1947, could he . . . ??"
    25. Ed_Haynes
      I think we need to be very very careful not to see awards that were standard issue to soldiers of the issuing country as being somehow "special" awards to "foreign friends" (though sometimes they did come with with special documents in a language these foreigners could read). Both the PDRY and PDRA medals were standard issue medals to Korean and Afghan troops though they were also awarded to foreigners.
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