Argghhh!

Boq

...it's all snakes 'n sticks from the trucks! Navy Day for historical flags... the First Navy Jack and Washington Cruisers flags.

I am not much of a Country Music fan...

Especially if that gunfight is with Jonn Lilyea over at This Ain't Hell. .. Picking fights with Jonn Lilyea isn't your best bet. I have a technical quibble, though, Jonn. A BSM is a jumped-up MSM, not a jumped-up ARCOM. Of course, that kinda reinforces your points about the unliklihood of an update... and trying to keep the awards system straight in your head. The two fellows currently swinging pen knives at Jonn while he unlimbers his Kimber are Paul Rieckhoff of IAVA , and, of course, Mike...

Oh, it's never going to happen. No one in the right places actually gives a proper damn. Secretary Shinseki knows better than this. The organization does well what the boss checks. He and I grew up in the same Army. We know that if you set a reporting metric, and never do anything but accept the report at face value, the weak will prefer to game the system rather than make it work. That was one of the purposes of the Annual General Inspection. To make you prove that what you reported was true...

Two or three times a year some of us older folks get a bit tangled up in memories (or memories of memories). Late April and much of May are my primary dates.

I've riffed on the medal before .

There are four Medals awarded for action in the Civil War, all on the exact same day, in two battles, at opposite ends of Virginia. We're back for the last day of the Battle of Petersburg. Let's let Confederate General Beauregard relate what it was to face men such as the three who earned Medals on that last day of the battle, before the Armies settled down to the Siege. From "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Volume 4." On that morning the troops arrayed against us consisted...