03-23-2008, 01:22 PM
I'm not convinced Jeff's stuff is bad. Most of you guys are way ahead of me on checking docs, but I will make a couple observations:
1. I have two blank gramotas for the Soldier Internationalist, and they are IDENTICAL to Jeff's in date and signatures. It appears this was a mass printing, and I bet it was a large annual awarding. I think his gramota is just fine as a doc (at least the pre-printed part).
2. It might be possible that the recipient of the BM got it a year or two late. This sort of thing, when tied to combat bravery awards, can routinely happen in the US Army. I suspect that in the Soviet Army of the 80's, the same sort of thing could happen. If so, she might have received her BM doc in '90 on what was then current doc stock.
3. I am right now looking at a military long service doc from the 60's/70's for the III class ('65) and the II class ('71). Both awardings were stamped in this booklet with the unit "postal" stamp (two different units also). I have another military LS booklet from '62 also stamped with the в/ч postal stamp. Maybe this was considered the unit stamp? That's what I thought was done for OPSEC or other reasons (not listing the name/type of the unit, just the postal code).
...Brian
1. I have two blank gramotas for the Soldier Internationalist, and they are IDENTICAL to Jeff's in date and signatures. It appears this was a mass printing, and I bet it was a large annual awarding. I think his gramota is just fine as a doc (at least the pre-printed part).
2. It might be possible that the recipient of the BM got it a year or two late. This sort of thing, when tied to combat bravery awards, can routinely happen in the US Army. I suspect that in the Soviet Army of the 80's, the same sort of thing could happen. If so, she might have received her BM doc in '90 on what was then current doc stock.
3. I am right now looking at a military long service doc from the 60's/70's for the III class ('65) and the II class ('71). Both awardings were stamped in this booklet with the unit "postal" stamp (two different units also). I have another military LS booklet from '62 also stamped with the в/ч postal stamp. Maybe this was considered the unit stamp? That's what I thought was done for OPSEC or other reasons (not listing the name/type of the unit, just the postal code).
...Brian
