Special Service Medal - Domestic Operations Bar

[eliminator]

And changes to medal court mounting length....

Court Mountings.
Court mounting shall be used. The length from the top of the medal bar suspender to the bottom edge of the medal shall be 9 cm. In rare cases where a recipient has an especially long insignia (i.e. a foreign award), expansion up to 9.5 cm will be permitted. The ribbons and medals shall be mounted on a panel, its size being determined by the number of ribbons worn. The lower edge of the panel shall be in line with the centre of the medals. Commencing from the lower edge, each ribbon runs up the front of the panel to the top and back down to the medal. The medals shall then be stitched to the panel to prevent them from swinging. This method prevents medals from clinking against each other.

NOTE
Members who fall under the old 10 cm policy do not have to modify their medals mounting. It should be only done by attrition/new mounting.

 

[Kilted]

And changes to medal court mounting length....

Court Mountings.
Court mounting shall be used. The length from the top of the medal bar suspender to the bottom edge of the medal shall be 9 cm. In rare cases where a recipient has an especially long insignia (i.e. a foreign award), expansion up to 9.5 cm will be permitted. The ribbons and medals shall be mounted on a panel, its size being determined by the number of ribbons worn. The lower edge of the panel shall be in line with the centre of the medals. Commencing from the lower edge, each ribbon runs up the front of the panel to the top and back down to the medal. The medals shall then be stitched to the panel to prevent them from swinging. This method prevents medals from clinking against each other.

NOTE
Members who fall under the old 10 cm policy do not have to modify their medals mounting. It should be only done by attrition/new mounting.

Why are we making medals shorter?

 

[dimsum]

In less interesting news, CAF members can now wear up to 4 ribbons per row...similar to the Brits and 'pre-CAF' CF.

METHOD OF WEARING UNDRESS RIBBONS​

(see Figure 4-4)

1. General
   1. Undress ribbons of orders, decorations and medals may be sewn, but shall normally be placed on a detachable ribbon bar and pinned, on the left breast of the service dress jacket, and on Nos. 2B, 3B and 3D orders of dress. Ribbons shall be worn in order of precedence from right to left of the wearer, with the senior ribbon closest to the centre of the chest on the top or only row. Where a single ribbon constitutes a row, it shall be worn centred above a lower row, or when worn as a single ribbon, centred on the garment as detailed in paragraph 13.
   2. Ribbon rows shall not be worn more than 0.3 cm apart.
   3. The number of ribbons worn in a single row is governed by the physique of the individual and the type of garment being worn. The grouping, however, shall respect the following conditions:
      1. ribbons shall not be fully obscured by the lapel of the garment;
      2. a maximum of four ribbons may be worn in a single row on authorized service dress jackets;
      3. up to four ribbons may be worn in a single row on short-sleeved shirts;
      4. where four ribbons cannot be worn in a single row without one becoming fully obscured, ribbons shall be worn in two rows, with three ribbons on the bottom and the senior ribbon centred above;
      5. ribbons shall not be arranged in more rows than are necessary to comply with these instructions;
      6. where more than one row of ribbons is worn, no row shall contain fewer ribbons than the row above;
      7. when more than one row of ribbons is worn, a single ribbon shall not be worn as a lower row;
      8. succeeding rows shall, without fully obscuring any ribbon, be centred above the lower row;
      9. when there is such a significant number of ribbons that centering the two ribbons above or the single ribbon above a full row causes the ribbons to be obscured by the lapel, then the ribbons may be left justified as appropriate; and
      10. standard arrangements of ribbons by row(s) are illustrated in Figure 4-5.

Dress instructions | Chapter 4 Orders, decorations, medals and other honours - Canada.ca

Canadian Armed Forces Dress Instructions

www.canada.ca

I’m assuming those new longer ribbon bars would be available sometime soon…?

 

[PuckChaser]

I’m assuming those new longer ribbon bars would be available sometime soon…?

Your local Sig Sqn/Regt kit shop is selling them.

 

[dimsum]

Your local Sig Sqn/Regt kit shop is selling them.

 

[Kilted]

Why are we making medals shorter?

I did the research to answear my own question. The British Army requires them to be 88.9mm long.

 

[dimsum]

I did the research to answear my own question. The British Army requires them to be 88.9mm long.

sure, but that doesn’t mean that we have to match that length.

 

[eliminator]

Why are we making medals shorter?

Legend has it that someone in Ottawa converted imperial to metric length incorrectly many moons ago....3.5" is closer to 9cm than 10cm.

There is another rumour that mentions that the RCAF imposed longer court mounting length to account for the DFC and ACF size. Somehow that became the standard.

 

[Kilted]

sure, but that doesn’t mean that we have to match that length.

Well, we are matching their ribbon standards at the same time.

 

[Grunt_031]

Why are we making medals shorter?

To match the new Army DEU?

 

[daftandbarmy]

Why are we making medals shorter?

Cut backs

 

[Kilted]

Meanwhile, Mr. Gringras proposes...

Canadian Defence Medal (Proposal)​

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-gingras-06938a211/


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Canadian Defence Medal (Proposal)

Canada's honours and awards system only goes as far back as 1967, in that time a lot of excellent medals have been included in it that allows for not only military, but first responders and civic recognition. With that said, there are still gaps that we should be looking to fill and one of these gap

www.linkedin.com

Slightly different idea, would make it a bit more difficult to receive, but should be should be obtainable by the average motivated member:

Name: Canadian Armed Forces Medal

Awarded for: Honourable contributions to the Defence of Canada and normal operations of the Canadian Armed Forces by Officers and Non-Commissioned Members of the Regular Force and Primary Reserve and (other members under specific circumstances) after March 1st, 1947.

Eligibility:

-Four years free of any administrative action or convictions (not including the normal course warning system)

-Completed DP1 or equivalent

-Have successfully completed a secondary trade course or another specialty course

-Be recommended by Chain of Command (if the award of this medal is deferred by the chain of command, it must be re-evaluated on an annual basis.



Exceptions

-Died while on duty, or died as a result of military service

-Injured while on duty to a degree that continued service would not be possible.



Canadian Rangers

-Canadian Rangers will be eligible if they meet the criteria above and have spent a cumulative period of at least 90 days in support of CAF operations outside of normal Ranger duties that would not be recognized by the Ranger Bar on the Special Service Medal.

-or-

Meet the criteria above, with the four-year period beginning after becoming eligible for the Ranger Bar on the Special Service Medal.



CIC

-Officers of the CIC will be eligible if they meet the criteria above and have spent a cumulative period of at least 90 days in support of CAF operations (not including Cadet or COATS activities).



Bars:

-OUTCAN Bar, recognizing any service that took place outside of Canada that is not recognized by another medal, and is listed on the member’s MPRR.



Order of Wear: after the King’s Medal for Champion Shot and before the Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship.



Note: the use of the word operations should not be confused with named operations.

 

[ueo]

and in the early 2000's - Hurricane Juan and White Juan White Juan - Wikipedia

I did note that the article there doesn't mention the military aid provided for both.

SWISS Air was purely a search and body parts recovery effort with the Navy mainly searching the waters and a fair number of army reserves combing the shoreline. It was not a pleasant task for those that found things especially after a few days.

At the risk of being laughed down how about Hurricane Hazel, FLQ Thingie etc, lots missing. Bar for each? We'd look like the pix of chinese generals posted elsewhere.

 

[Grunt_031]

Bars on medals can get out of control if you want to recognize every event or action. It been tried and abandon many times. You can't make everybody happy.

 

[foresterab]

At the risk of being laughed down how about Hurricane Hazel, FLQ Thingie etc, lots missing. Bar for each? We'd look like the pix of chinese generals posted elsewhere.

Hello ueo,

I'm slowly working through at home what I can find for references for past Canadian Operations within Canada. Part of the issue is that the further back you go the fewer the "named" missions occurred and instead were often done via much lower command deployments than the current HQ set up.

It is because there are so many different deployments that I recommend grouping them into a type of deployment - there are at least 4 different "Flood" deployment missions and at least 13 different "Security" type missions I've found to date - and then issuing a single bar.

FLQ Crisis is the one exception I'm mulling over due to the activation of the War Measures Act.

But hopefully will capture more of the missing deployments when I update next week.
foresterab

 

[kratz]

Hello ueo,

I'm slowly working through at home what I can find for references for past Canadian Operations within Canada. Part of the issue is that the further back you go the fewer the "named" missions occurred and instead were often done via much lower command deployments than the current HQ set up.

It is because there are so many different deployments that I recommend grouping them into a type of deployment - there are at least 4 different "Flood" deployment missions and at least 13 different "Security" type missions I've found to date - and then issuing a single bar.

FLQ Crisis is the one exception I'm mulling over due to the activation of the War Measures Act.

But hopefully will capture more of the missing deployments when I update next week.
foresterab

If your are looking at FLQ, you may want to group it with other domestic protests such as Oka. Would the Olympics (x3) and G7 (x2) fall under security type events?

 

[CountDC]

At the risk of being laughed down how about Hurricane Hazel, FLQ Thingie etc, lots missing. Bar for each? We'd look like the pix of chinese generals posted elsewhere.

No to the bars. Give a number for how many domops the member has participated in.

 

[blackberet17]

No to the bars. Give a number for how many domops the member has participated in.

Similar to periods of service for UN tours, makes it a bit cleaner on the medals and ribbons.

 

[foresterab]

So after more than a couple of hours I've got a revised list of operations. The biggest challenge is there are EXERCISES and OPERATIONS to track which may or may not be used interchangeably especially when a person looks at all the different Arctic Operations.

I've also tried to indicate which province/territory if I found the information and the number of CAF members involved. If I could not find the information I have plugged in the value of "50" as a default as many appear to be RCAF taskings, RANGERS being tasked, or the information is not shared where I could find it easily with my Google searches.





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[foresterab]

Continued Domestic Operations:




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