Rows of medal ribbons

[Cobalt60]

I need to ask, anybody any idea about the rows of medal ribbons on the chests of the officials, Customs, Police etc ?

Longs Service and Good Conduct.? Top Rubber Stampist ?

[Farma]

There are standard racks depending on what department they work for, grade and time served. These are available for all to buy in specialised clothing shops and some stationary shops.

The medals, decorations and awards are awarded on graduation from university, auspicious occasions, length of service, rank as well as other special awards.

If you can read Thai, medals and awards are shown on this link. http://www.cabinet.thaigov.go.th/dd_main21.htm and http://www.mof.go.th/home/cordon_1.html

For higher level medals and awards the recipient recieves a signed letter from the King. That letter is authority for the recipient to purchase and wear the medal.

[RabC]

Seems they follow the American method and award a ribbon for crossing the road.

[Cobalt60]

Ahh right. I think of medals from a military point of view, for campaigns during conflict, thats why I couldn't work out how they got theirs.

[RabC]

Ahh right. I think of medals from a military point of view, for campaigns during conflict, thats why I couldn't work out how they got theirs.

As do I being a Brit, but if you ever meet an American service person, they have ribbons as well as Campaign Medals. The reasons for some of the ribbons are ................ I shall say no more.

[Commander Tamson]

Seems they follow the American method and award a ribbon for crossing the road.

I think it's way more than that. My GF's sister is a teacher and wears her nice white uniform and hat at any and every occasion; she has more medal ribbons than you can point a stick at! Nothing against Thai teachers but I think it's maybe all in the homonym

[Songhua]

I did twenty years service and I've got two ribbons and a nametag.

[RabC]

I did twenty years service and I've got two ribbons and a nametag.

Snap

[simon43]

During my years of volunteer work with the Thai police, I was awarded no less than 5 certificates of merit and 3 medals. (I don't actually think it means that I was a superstar..)

On one dubious occasion some years ago when I had to appear in a Thai court, I decided to wear my 'HM King's award medals to indicate my 'status'. I think this backfired on me when I discovered that the main police guy sported exactly the same medals as me (hey! you got one too!).

[sustento]

Is it true that all university degrees are presented by a member of the royal family?

[trainman34014]

They get the first one for being born ! The next comes for saying 'Cup' as their first word, third for eating breakfast without spilling it, fourth for tying shoelaces....and so on. All part of the 'I'm an important person' syndrome that little people like us to believe. Anyone who wears a uniform is a 'Government Official'....even a Town Hall cleaner. We call all these people 'Civil Servants' because they are, after all, servants of the people who pay their wages. Alas; can't have such a real title here where everyone has to be 'somebody special because they are Thai'.

[dave2]

re

There are standard racks depending on what department they work for, grade and time served. These are available for all to buy in specialised clothing shops

hes right !

a lot of them specialise in making sew on badges , hats and uniforms that are usually way way to tight

re

Is it true that all university degrees are presented by a member of the royal family?

two uni girls i used to see quite a lot of said their graduation degree was given to them by the kings son and one of the pricesses about two years ago so i think the answer is probably yes

dave2

[bangkockney]

The same eveywhere...just like the Jubilee medal UK personnel were "awarded"...

Campaign dongs for REMFs etc ...

[Soutpeel]

The one that confuses me is the BiB...they all seem to have completed "para" training...or at least what that barge looks like to me...but somehow cant see Cpl Somchai diving head first or bum first out of a airplane as part of the training...

Of course it could be an evade capture/doing a runner badge...

[Songhua]

One can never have too many

[harrry]

It dates from the time not long ago where what we know as sival servants were officers of the Royal Court. Often they were not paid much (although they had payment avenues available as demonstrated by the police fines) but service was rewarded with status and medals.

Now they work for the government but the heirachy remains as do the awards.

[Farma]

The one that confuses me is the BiB...they all seem to have completed "para" training...or at least what that barge looks like to me...but somehow cant see Cpl Somchai diving head first or bum first out of a airplane as part of the training...

Of course it could be an evade capture/doing a runner badge...

BIB Brother in law has one. He's never jumped by parachute. They qualify during training once they've used the zip line from the tower.

[ANDY2463]

One can never have too many

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Love that Pic +1

[lujanit]

Is it true that all university degrees are presented by a member of the royal family?

Well if this is true then the Member of the Royal Family who presented 4,000 students (maybe 8,000; depends on who is talking on 100 FM) today at Bangkok Thonburi University deserves a medal for endurance. I should have taken some pics of the vendors selling flowers etc along the road. Indescribable colours!

[harrry]

Is it true that all university degrees are presented by a member of the royal family?

Well if this is true then the Member of the Royal Family who presented 4,000 students (maybe 8,000; depends on who is talking on 100 FM) today at Bangkok Thonburi University deserves a medal for endurance. I should have taken some pics of the vendors selling flowers etc along the road. Indescribable colours!

You just try holding your hand out 4000 times or more while keeping a fixed look.

Not easy work. Cannot take a toilet break either.

Edited August 24, 2013 by harrry

[Cobalt60]

These medals are just decorations in that no one has won them for being shot at then.

As for the para wings, well that's just ridiculous. Maybe they keep budgies.

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[harrry]

These medals are just decorations in that no one has won them for being shot at then.

As for the para wings, well that's just ridiculous. Maybe they keep budgies.

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Most military medals are not won for being shot at either.

[dave2]

re

I should have taken some pics of the vendors selling flowers etc along the road. Indescribable colours!

like these ?

dave2

songhua

you should be awarded a medal for that pic

its stunning ... love it

[phutoie2]

The same eveywhere...just like the Jubilee medal UK personnel were "awarded"...

Campaign dongs for REMFs etc ...

The Jubilee medal is not a campaign medal. Plus just not awarded to remfs. Plenty of them were issued to F echelon troops too. F - me even the ginger topped one has one. That's Captain Wales.

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[Farma]

These medals are just decorations in that no one has won them for being shot at then.

As for the para wings, well that's just ridiculous. Maybe they keep budgies.

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What you're confusing here is a difference between military and civil honours.

Most of what you see civil servants wearing would fall under what is known in the British imperial system as civil or general awards.

The more senior awards you see politicians wearing with the big star on the right chest and ribbon across the chest is the equivilent to Knights, Cordons, Dames etc.

Other lesser awards have similarities to civilian awards like the Police, Nursing service, fire service medals found in other countries award systems.

[chrisinth]

I did twenty years service and I've got two ribbons and a nametag.

I did 23 years and ended up with 5 ribbons and the nametag! But even in UK (personally speaking) the value of being given medals demeans the people who actually deserve them. I understand they are issued to determine that an individual attended an 'event' or was issued for a specific 'feat', but for the majority, don't really mean anything. It wasn't as if I volunteered to be in the places I was sent.

I was given the first medal for living at home, being paid additional 'danger' money and getting more time off than I would anywhere else in the service (GSM NI). I was given one for 15 years 'undetected crime'(Long Service); the court is still out on how the <deleted> that happened, and the last one was posted to me 3 months after I had left (NATO medal) for sitting in a 16 x 8 mile box in the Adriatic bored to tears.

When I see 'sportsmen' being given MBE's (or OBE's if they already have an MBE) for something they are being paid to do, this to me deprives someone who really should be credited for his/her actions. Seems that UK has joined the rest of the world for issuing tin.

Certainly don't begrudge people getting them, just prefer not to recognize the majority of them..................

[PlastikbinLina]

Is it true that all university degrees are presented by a member of the royal family?

Well if this is true then the Member of the Royal Family who presented 4,000 students (maybe 8,000; depends on who is talking on 100 FM) today at Bangkok Thonburi University deserves a medal for endurance. I should have taken some pics of the vendors selling flowers etc along the road. Indescribable colours!

You just try holding your hand out 4000 times or more while keeping a fixed look.

Not easy work. Cannot take a toilet break either.

Yes an awful lot of graduates and I see them almost every night during the Royal News for the day thing being given something from a member of the Royal family.. Where the heck do they all go to? There must be millions of graduates in Thailand

[wayned]

I was there ribbons, had a few but never had a "name tag"!

[Songhua]

I was there ribbons, had a few but never had a "name tag"!

Surely you've got some regimental plaques and a pewter retirement mug, wayned?

[Commander Tamson]

I did twenty years service and I've got two ribbons and a nametag.

I did 23 years and ended up with 5 ribbons and the nametag! But even in UK (personally speaking) the value of being given medals demeans the people who actually deserve them. I understand they are issued to determine that an individual attended an 'event' or was issued for a specific 'feat', but for the majority, don't really mean anything. It wasn't as if I volunteered to be in the places I was sent.

I was given the first medal for living at home, being paid additional 'danger' money and getting more time off than I would anywhere else in the service (GSM NI). I was given one for 15 years 'undetected crime'(Long Service); the court is still out on how the <deleted> that happened, and the last one was posted to me 3 months after I had left (NATO medal) for sitting in a 16 x 8 mile box in the Adriatic bored to tears.

When I see 'sportsmen' being given MBE's (or OBE's if they already have an MBE) for something they are being paid to do, this to me deprives someone who really should be credited for his/her actions. Seems that UK has joined the rest of the world for issuing tin.

Certainly don't begrudge people getting them, just prefer not to recognize the majority of them..................

Chris is so absolutely right. My father fought in the jungles of Bornea & Burma during WWII. Never spoke much about it but was certainly engaged in hand to hand - I believe about half his regiment didn't make it home. He got two campaign medals!!

A school teacher in Thailand gets a chest full - for what?