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Second row : Unknown green with red edges - Commander National Order of Ivory Coast ? - Commander National Order of Mali ( 100 % sure) - Unknown commander red (but as long as I know he was not awarded Legion of Honour of France)

Well, the MO of IC ribbon is red without edges http://semon.fr/DECO...COTE_IVOIRE.htm, like the right one, you think it could be the LH.

Fourth row : 4 ribbon for UN Multinational Operation ( UNFIL in 1982 - UNAVEM in 1994 - ECONOG - UNOCI )

UNOCI...hm...http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=9705&view=findpost&p=101364&hl=unoci&fromsearch=1...the ribbon seems to be turned 180°, green left and orange right.

He is wearing on Bar: Sigmun Landus Gilt; Sigmun Landus Silver;

Signum Laudis

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milit%C3%A4r-Verdienstmedaille_(%C3%96sterreich)

Yes, the last one in the lowest row is a German sport award.

http://www.rkwetterau.de/assets/images/dsab.jpg

http://www.rkwetterau.de/html/hauptteil_brd_oez.html

But in my opinion 4th row, the third ribbon is not a UN medal, it is the ribbon of the Medaille de la MICECI.

http://img267.imageshack.us/i/104001.jpg/

sorry, here is the photo.

Hello,

I do not know this: a fourragere CG TOE with an olive of the MM.

Can anybody explain?

Thanks

Michael

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It is looking like the emblem of the U96 in the movie "Das Boot" from 1981.

Self made, perhaps by an movie enthusiast.

UA mbL (mit bestandenem Lehrgang, completed succesful NCO´s school)

http://www.survival.de/media/images/produkte/rangschlaufen/bw_kordel3_gross.jpg

http://home.arcor.de/matthias-schmitz/Dienstgrade_der_Bundeswehr_auf_Feldanzuegen_ect.pdf

Look at page 4 at 4. Besonderheiten, the second epaulette.

http://www.marine.de/portal/a/marine/service/lexikon/lexikon_r?yw_contentURL=/01DB070000000001/W26W7F53004INFODE/content.jsp

the NCO Candidate of equal rank is an UA.

Since a few years there is a new one.

FA = Feldwebel-Anwaerter.

It was introduced to make the NCO´s carrier more interesting for young soldiers.

You will be Feldwebel after three years service.

UA was a longer way.

First you was UA, than Gefreiter UA , maybe Obergefreiter or HG UA, than UA mbL (mit bestandenem Lehrgang, completed succesful NCO´s school) than Unteroffizier and Stabsunteroffizier.

This took 3-5 years.

After that, if you had good certifications you were send to the Feldwebel-Lehrgang, after compelting it succesful you were waiting to be promoted to feldwebel.

I know a guy who was 4 years Stabsunteroffizier, because there was no possible position for him to get Feldwebel. He left Bundeswehr after 8 years aas Stabsunteroffizier whit the paygrade of a Feldwebel, but without the chrevron.

Now the FA insures you that you will be Feldwebel after three years.

The equivalent to the Navy is BA, Bootsmann-Anwaerter.

The FA shows a golden cord, smiliar the silver one for OA.

The BA shows a second UA chevron.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldwebelanw%C3%A4rter