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06-14-2012, 03:41 PM | #1 | ||
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For Combat Merits,U/N 1971,Deputy Leader,86th Surface-To-Air Missile Brigade,Egypt
Junior Sergeant Nikolai Vasilyevich Bazhanyuk, 86th Surface-to-Air Missile Brigade of the Air Defense Forces
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06-14-2012, 11:40 PM | #2 |
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Re: Combat Merit Medal,Jr. Sgt.,86th Surface-to-Air Missile Brigade, Egypt (1971),u/n
Wow Ed! Another great one Ed. This is the first "general service" award citation I have seen...
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Re: Combat Merit Medal,Jr. Sgt.,86th Surface-to-Air Missile Brigade, Egypt (1971),u/n
What I find unusual here is the fact that the attachment is an old-style brass one. Is it a replacement? Because to me it does not look correct for the era.
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06-15-2012, 08:56 AM | #4 |
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Re: Combat Merit Medal,Jr. Sgt.,86th Surface-to-Air Missile Brigade, Egypt (1971),u/n
I'm certainly not an expert on suspensions, but I can guarantee that brass suspensions were handed out this late. For instance, both of my 1969 CMM's to Bulgarians and my 1971 CMM to a Mongolian are on a brass suspension.
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06-15-2012, 09:02 AM | #5 |
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Re: Combat Merit Medal,Jr. Sgt.,86th Surface-to-Air Missile Brigade, Egypt (1971),u/n
I think it could be very easy to become more fixated on suspensions than anyone at the time ever was. Suspensions are just that, suspensions. I suspect they were seen as functional items, not as objects of manic obsession.
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Re: Combat Merit Medal,Jr. Sgt.,86th Surface-to-Air Missile Brigade, Egypt (1971),u/n
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06-15-2012, 09:22 AM | #7 |
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Re: Combat Merit Medal,Jr. Sgt.,86th Surface-to-Air Missile Brigade, Egypt (1971),u/n
I tend not to feel at all comfortable with the idea of a "filler". Not quite faking, but, for me, close enough. That is just my view, though, and others have different thresholds. There is "good" behavior, there is "evil" behavior, and a really really broad "gray" area in between, and "fillers" fall there, I guess. Sadly, with most Soviet items, there is no easy way to tell. All I know is that the ragged medal and the ragged book came together from a reliable source, before the research was done. I'm not even sure DNA testing would answer the question. As far as I am concerned, I have no problem with this, but a "?" will always hang. A "?" not a "!!!!!!!!!!".
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Re: Combat Merit Medal,Jr. Sgt.,86th Surface-to-Air Missile Brigade, Egypt (1971),u/n
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(Again, I don't think there are any "!"'s here.) |
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06-15-2012, 10:03 AM | #9 |
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Re: Combat Merit Medal,Jr. Sgt.,86th Surface-to-Air Missile Brigade, Egypt (1971),u/n
If one wants certanties and abolutes, I'm not sure this is the right "hobby".
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Re: Combat Merit Medal,Jr. Sgt.,86th Surface-to-Air Missile Brigade, Egypt (1971),u/n
There is an absolute.
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