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Originally Posted by QRQ 30
It won't change much. The abuses will continue regardless of the badge. Unqualified personnel will get rubber stamped..
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What you get also depends on the orders.
After the first Gulf war you had to be stationed in the area to get the SWASM and SSI. Any one who went to Camp Doha or the general area TDY got nothing.
That did not apply to joint operations and guys with "Joint" orders would float in now and again, get the medal and SSI then head state side.
Well, on one of our many trips there the "J" guys and some secret squirrels needed an SF company to do some of the set up, assest with the OP and then clean up for them. Our company got tagged for the job. Our battalion (-) was over there but just because of the way the orders were written anybody in our company without it got the SSI while the guys in the next company did not.
Oh well, being a "J" guy does have it's perks evry now and again.
Pete