Is it cringe to for veterans to display their awards and decorations on license plates or vehicle decals?
I'm thinking of getting pic related.
Is it cringe to for veterans to display their awards and decorations on license plates or vehicle decals?
Is it cringe to for veterans to display their awards and decorations on license plates or vehicle decals?
I'm thinking of getting pic related.
NDM is turbo cringe. If it’s less than a Bronze Star, don’t.
National Defense Medal is literally a participation trophy is right, unless it's for a notable personal achievement don't even bother.
Myself, and three of my teammates got Navy Crosses for extinguishing an HMMWV fire after an IED hit, pulling dudes out, and returning small arms fire in Afghanistan.
You better bet I put that on my license plate after I got out lmao
I know everyone says that it's "Just below an MOH" but it's really just a hand out if you save someones life in an active combat zone. Didn't even really know what it was until I got the envelope before the ceremony.
>it's really just a hand out if you save someones life in an active combat zone.
Just a hand out? You and your squad are actual heroes. That medal is well earned.
I don't like the term "hero"
It was all just adrenaline and doing what you were taught. I didn't like Cpl. Krouse.
I tell him all the time when we talk that I regret pulling him out lmao
It's all just jokes, but hero's arent real. Sometimes normal men are just put in abnormal situations. "The right man in the wrong place" sort of thing.
I was a shitbag through most of my service, just skating responsibility. But deployments were always really serious to me.
That's how it feels. Everyone would do the same in that position under those exact circumstances.
I don't think you're a hero. Why? Because if you didn't do what you did, people would think you're an asshole and a buddy fucker. You basically did what was expected of you. Even in the civilian world, who is going to watch someone burn up in a car fire?
Heroes are people who inarguably put their lives at risk to save the lives of other, or to accomplish the mission; things that almost everyone would either not consider doing or if they did consider it, decide that it's too risky.
Good job, though. I think you earned it.
>Heroes are people who inarguably put their lives at risk to save the lives of other, or to accomplish the mission
Did you forget about the part where anon mentioned he returned small arms fire? I highly doubt many civilians could pull people out of a burning vehicle while being actively shot at.
>I highly doubt many civilians could pull people out of a burning vehicle while being actively shot at
That just sounds like being a Tesla-driver in Detroit
I would say that breaking cover at only around 50 yards in front of about two dozen daesh/isis insurgents, in order to return fire and establish a hard line counts as putting your life at risk haha.
The fire and resulting minor burns on my arms and hands were not even a factor in my opinion. Burns heal.
But I agree 100% with you. Heroism, and taught response are two totally different things.
I would have been cool with a NAM, or nothing at all. It was some blind response, and some rage.
>Everyone would do the same in that position under those exact circumstances
Not relevant. What matters is that you put yourself into the position to do it, and then did it.
Don't hold the word 'hero' up too high. In a world of inaction and complacency, just doing what you need to do is more than enough to be considered a hero
I'm my kid's hero and all I do is take that dude to school and out to the range
>I don't like the term "hero"
>It was all just adrenaline and doing what you were taught. I didn't like Cpl. Krouse.
>I tell him all the time when we talk that I regret pulling him out lmao
>It's all just jokes, but hero's arent real. Sometimes normal men are just put in abnormal situations. "The right man in the wrong place" sort of thing.
>I was a shitbag through most of my service, just skating responsibility. But deployments were always really serious to me.
So in other words you behaved as, and have the attitude of, the exact model soldier Western Military Leadership dreams of?
>it's really just a hand out if you save someones life in an active combat zone
Nope.
Doubt
do Purple Hearts count?
Only if they are prior to desert storm. I don’t actively discriminate vets, but couldn’t imagine being a tunnel rat in Vietnam
Depends on the award
>National Defense
Pretty cringe.
It's the only think I've got. And boots don't have it, so I have more awards and decorations than they do. I want to show off.
Not even a Good Conduct Medal (which is higher)?
I haven't been in long enough.
My Brother in Allah, the fact that you want to show off to boots while still being barely out of boot yourself is cringe. If you wait a bit and aren't a total fuckhead (by military standards) you'll have other awards you can be actually proud of.
Less cringe, but make sure the story behind it is good if anyone asks.
Smart man.
>Less cringe, but make sure the story behind it is good if anyone asks.
There is no story. Our post was CONUS and had a unit inspection, which we passed with flying colors. Maybe I should just tell people the name of the award and if they ask for details, tell them it's secret.
Hell, if you're fucking proud of getting that ribbon then that's all the excuse you need to own that shit and put it on your car.
You might think there's no story but if you're truly proud enough of an award to show it off there's always a story, if not for other people to hear but at least for you to remember. And I'll tell you now even seemingly mundane shit will catch the attention of some people.
No one gives a fuck about boots, they're children. You did a good thing, flex that shit if you want to.
Bud, save yourself the embarrassment. There's an element of mystique when people learn you have awards that you never talked about.
Just get your branch of service if you don’t have any cool awards
What about unit awards?
Anything is acceptable but the my son is in the army or proud marine mom bullshit
It's cringe as fuck because it is purely for your own ego stroking. When I see veterans license plates I just assume they are a loudmouth douchebag who probably turns every convo into something about his time in.
>When I see veterans license plates I just assume they are a loudmouth douchebag who probably turns every convo into something about his time in.
I have one just so I don't have to pay tolls.
>good goy award
Kek, people enlisting nowadays don't even get a good goy award.
I'd throw my (theoretical) humanitarian service medal on my license plate if I could. Not for the work I did (setting up tents for those hilariously retarded Afghans to shit in) to earn it in the first place, but as a reminder of how many bureaucratic branches I had to find and climb to actually get it awarded to me after being told I earned it. That was the real work.
Spoiler: After two years of fruitless E-mails and record correction requests, I never managed to get those bastards to give it to me.
cringe if Bronze star or lower imo, especially in MD, I’ve seen a guy with a MOH license plate and several army and navy crosses in the DMV
>I’ve seen a guy with a MOH license plate
Sus. There are only 65 living recipients of the Medal of Honor right now.
We had an entire thread about this last week. Vets in the US are almost uniformly welfare queen, handout taking losers. No better than inner city morons and probably worse in some regards. Projecting you're a welfare recipient is cringe.
>Is it cringe to for veterans to display their awards and decorations on license plates or vehicle decals?
Highly depends. In my opinion only personal awards count but even then not everyone.
>Bronze Star
>Silver Star
>MoH
>Navy Cross
>DCS
>AFC
>Purple Heart
If you don't have stuff like that, you might put some other respectable award on it. Like a Combat Action Badge, Combat Infantryman Badge, Combat Action Ribbon or Expert Marksmanship Badge.
You ain't got one of those? Then put your branch on your plates. National Defense and other stuff is not really cringe but I find it kinda inappropriate.
>National Defense Service Medal plate
Troll move: join a state guard without ever having served in the military and get the participation ribbons and the customized license plate and act super hooah about it on your car.
displaying any personal achievement of yourself outside of your own house is cringe
I work with quite a few people with PhDs and the people who put "Dr." and/or PhD on their names (for example on Twitter) are cuntier on average than those who don't.
Displaying a NDSM is the equivalent of framing and displaying your high school diploma. Like yeah we just assume you had one lol
>Like yeah we just assume you had one lol
Nobody who EAD after 2022 has one.
it helps me know which cars to key
If you get cheaper registration fees, absolutely worth it.
In Texas your registration cost goes down to $10/yr
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