NAVY RIBBON & OTHER ISSUES

[Navy Patriot]

John -

Your site is great and I commend you for your work. Keep up the good work.

A couple of issues when I make my rack. I apologize if I repeat from other notices -

Presidential Unit Citation (Army/AF & Navy/USMC) - capability of adding olc or bronze stars.

Joint Meritorious Unit Award - no capability for olc.

Navy Unit Commendation - gold frame automatically appears and no capability for small stars. No gold frame exists for the NUC.

Navy Battle E - up to 3 individual "E"s may be worn. The 4th award of the Battle E is an E device within a laurel.

The last item concerns the addition of stars. On some ribbons (ie SW Asia Service Medal) indicating 3 battle stars in the box will put 3 stars on the rack. To put a service star on the National Defense Medal or the Sea Service Deployment ribbon, in order to indicate 3 awards you must put a "2" in the box. I recommend you standardize this function so as not to confuse folks.

Appreciate you letting me speak my peace. Again - nice job and keep up the good work.

NavyPatriot

[mechinfantry]

All your problems have been fixed. the thing with the Southwest Asia Service Medal is that with all other awards the first award is a ribbon the second is a star, However the Southwest Asia Service Medal is different there was 3 campaigns and each one you were involved with you recieve a star. So if you where in 2 campaigns you get the ribbon and 2 stars.

[John Asendorf]

Some medals campaign stars... like the SW Asia Medal. You are awarded a campaign star for each campaign served in during the war. Hence, the SW Asia Medal is never worn without a star... if you get one... you get one star at least.

The NDSM is different. The star on the NDSM signifies subsequent awards... hence if you're awarded it once, no star, twice, two stars.

I've tried to make this the number of awards but the more I work on it the more I realize this may need to be reworked for clarity's sake.

John