Kings coronation medal

ivrytwr3 said:
Non-contributory and decent. Not brilliant and certainly not enough to early retire on and certainly not as good as the emergency services or some private company pensions.
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That seems to be main trade off with many public vs private jobs.
I don't begrudge it. As it shouldn't be a race to the bottom. But a good pension is valuable. Most private sector pensions are poor.

Mine is terrible. 5pc matched. Its not enough.

But we make our choices.

Interestingly, id have gone into the military if my legs were good enough. But flat feet (and the symptoms) soon put pay to that. Wonder if I'd think differently if I were in?
 
StriderX said:
What I don't get is why there is a 5 year qualification for serving military?

Is it meant for officers or something?
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It's meant for any service person who has competed more than 5 years service. The military is made up of more than just officer's - if anything, officer's are in the minority compared to the soldiers, sailors and aviators.
 
ivrytwr3 said:
It's meant for any service person who has competed more than 5 years service. The military is made up of more than just officer's - if anything, officer's are in the minority compared to the soldiers, sailors and aviators.
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Yes but what I mean is they'd surely have gone up in rank by then.
 
Haggisman said:
It's just the vibe I'm getting from most of the responses to be honest - "what about other hardworking people? etc."

Most jobs have "perks" outside of the base salary, whether that's a staff discount for retail workers, paid Christmas parties, discount travel cards etc., not sure why this is any different?
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fair point but i don't see it as envy - i think some others are just seeing it as a bit of a pr stunt and waste of money rather than actually being envious. not sure there's too many are going to have sleepless nights because of the green eyed monster, it looks rather trinkety (imo)

i'd much prefer those 'front line staff' were receiving a proper wage, decent working conditions etc - not some trinket to pin to their jacket.
 
GaryTheSnail said:
Are you getting one then?
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Haha, god no, I haven't worked in the public sector in at least 15 years :D

Thekwango said:
fair point but i don't see it as envy - i think some others are just seeing it as a bit of a pr stunt and waste of money rather than actually being envious. not sure there's too many are going to have sleepless nights because of the green eyed monster, it looks rather trinkety (imo)

i'd much prefer those 'front line staff' were receiving a proper wage, decent working conditions etc - not some trinket to pin to their jacket.
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Oh yeah, I absolutely agree. Problem is, any kind of "perks" for frontline public sector workers results in people being up in arms about their tax money (whilst simultaneously being happy to pay for a CEO's yacht). I remember when working in education we had to pay for our own Christmas meals because we were government funded - I had better perks working as a shop assistant on Saturdays in my teens! Then people moan at the poor quality of public sector staff... maybe it's because they're treated like **** and anyone who is actually capable very quickly moves on to something else?

I just think it's overly cynical of some people who are looking for a deeper meaning than a nice gesture/nod to tradition/recognition of service/and yes, on some level it probably is a bit of a PR stunt.
 
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I have a huge amount of respect for people that choose to go and join the armed forces - I had to do my national service and it was eye opening and made me realise it's definitely not something I want to do for a living. However I'm not nationalistic or patriotic for any of my countries.

I realise this is tradition and so on, and I guess it would be a shame to get rid of it - but to me it's just a very unnecessary thing as I just don't care for it - so it's entirely personal rather than it being "fact". :)
 
Penfold101 said:
A grand total of 4 have been awarded since the Falklands War, 2 of them posthumously. They have quite a few already made, and I suspect they’ll never have to break into the metal from the canon ever again as the situations that result in them are unlikely to come about given the nature of warfare these days.

The number of living recipients these days is very small, and a Gurkha recently passed away in Nepal. There’s a RAF pilot from WW2 still going strong aged 104 in north Scotland though.
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Fun Yank medal fact: Despite thousands of Purple Hearts being awarded since the end of WW2, they’ve still got a huge stack of them left as they stamped hundreds of thousands in preparation for American casualties during Operation Olympic - the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands Which was cancelled after the Japanese surrendered after the second atomic bomb was dropped.
 
Medals are overrated :p I managed to go through 12 years service without receiving one, despite being in during the diamond Jubilee and going away for a total of over a year (yes this is small beer compared to some but definitely more than the average for my trade).

They're giving them away for certain deployments to Cyprus now, where you're living and working within a stone's throw of married quarters where kids are running around living normal lives. I'm not bitter.
 
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Freefaller said:
I have a huge amount of respect for people that choose to go and join the armed forces - I had to do my national service and it was eye opening and made me realise it's definitely not something I want to do for a living. However I'm not nationalistic or patriotic for any of my countries.

I realise this is tradition and so on, and I guess it would be a shame to get rid of it - but to me it's just a very unnecessary thing as I just don't care for it - so it's entirely personal rather than it being "fact". :)
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How many countries have you got?
 
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