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Maybe he's a well-travelled mercenary?
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And a very old one mercenary, with the Queen's South Africa Medal. He has aged well.
Three British medals (one Afro-British, with the Africa Star backwards), one Polish, and one Soviet.
We could all make good money serving as advisors in the place of the idiots they seem to hire for movies!
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Oh, and speaking of "Applied phaleristics", I wonder how bad 'Charlie Wilson's War' is gonna be.
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I didn't pay very close attention to the ribbons, but the movie is great. A must see
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Tal's note on the dude wearing the incorrect LibKuwait is, for me, the most amusing. I've got both from '91 on my uniform (as do another half million guys like me), and I have been back to Kuwait about a dozen times in the past decade along with a trip back to Saudi in '03. You see just about every Kuwaiti cop and soldier over a certain age wearing theirs, and most of the Saudi military wearing theirs. But... I've never seen them cross that boundary, so to speak. We pick up on the foreign ribbons, but I wonder what the viewing Saudis will think about so basic a mistake on their own campaign award.
