10-19-2002, 02:30 PM
Good point. Does anyone know if any other commanders were made honorary members of Guards units? And have there been any instances of foreigners serving with Soviet Army formations, and being awarded the badge.
In the US military, if a person is serving with the unit at the time it is awarded a citation and ribbon, he is entitled to continue wearing it after he (or she) leaves the unit. Personnel who join the unit after the awarding wear the citation ribbon as a matter of uniformity, but must remove it when they leave. Does this hold true for Guards units in the Soviet past, and the present Russia?
And a minor correction to my earlier post: the colors were probably of the Croix de Guerre, not the Legion of Honor, which I believe was awarded solely on an individual basis.
In the US military, if a person is serving with the unit at the time it is awarded a citation and ribbon, he is entitled to continue wearing it after he (or she) leaves the unit. Personnel who join the unit after the awarding wear the citation ribbon as a matter of uniformity, but must remove it when they leave. Does this hold true for Guards units in the Soviet past, and the present Russia?
And a minor correction to my earlier post: the colors were probably of the Croix de Guerre, not the Legion of Honor, which I believe was awarded solely on an individual basis.
