Award inflation is out of hand

[YourLocalHistoryGuy]

He looks like a noth korean general with all those awards 

 

 

 

 

[atb]

Please identify the admiral. Most of the ribbons seem to represent campaign and service awards.

[YourLocalHistoryGuy]

Admiral brad cooper

[otter42]

This is what it shows online for his awards. Looks like more has been added in your photo of him since this was done on Wikipedia. 

[Salvage Sailor]

59 minutes ago, YourLocalHistoryGuy said:

He looks like a noth korean general with all those awards 

 

 

 

 

 

Uh, no...

 

These are North Korean flag officers (with some chubby guy)

 

The medals donned by North Korean generals reflect a blend of inherited honors, political motivations, and an expansive system of recognizing both military and civilian contributions to the state. Image: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un with his military generals

 

...although the Admiral does have too many Gedunk ribbons

 

[otter42]

Wonder if they have problems with stolen valor...punishment would be strapped to a warhead and test fired over Japan.

[manayunkman]

Don’t some of those North Koreans officers get so many medals that they ran out of room on their jackets and had to pin the medals on their pants?

[collectsmedals]

[Salvage Sailor]

Cute, but that one has been "AI'ed" and all over the 'puter-phone

[collectsmedals]

19 hours ago, Salvage Sailor said:

Cute, but that one has been "AI'ed" and all over the 'puter-phone

I didn't think of that, but it makes sense. At 68 I have not quite assimilated into the AI era.

[R Leonard]

I dunno about all the other award, but those marksmenship ribbons at the very end . . . these were usually from time as a midshipman.  My father,  A RAdm with 2 Navy Crosses amongst other award never wore them from 1942 and forward.  He said proficiency with a rifle or pistol was to be expected.  The only time he fired a pistol in anger was at incoming Japanese dive bombers at Midway and a flight deck officer chased him away. 

 

My father grew up in the old army and had been shooting the 1911A1 since he was about 10 years old.  In the mid-1960's when I was about the same age, I used to stop by with my friends at the indoor range at NOB Norfolk after alighting from the school bus and watch the shooters do their thing.  One evening a couple of CPOs stopped by the quarters and told my father I was interested and with his approval they would let me shoot.  He said a couple of sergeants in the 13th Infantry had made the same presentation to his father, then Colonel commanding the regiment,  and were told to go ahead. 

 

So along bout 11 years old I started shooting the 1911A1. Flash forward to circa 1971 at VMI I could take down a 1911A1 without instruction and shoot same with reasonable expectation of accuracy,  They wanted me on the pistol team, but I had better thing to do, like fencing.

[The Rooster]