A question about the British military

[Critch]

I do remember seeing a picture of the Royal Navy skipper of one of the ships that sank the Bismarck, and he only had one row of ribbons...so I think they are little less inclined to just hand them out...

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[sprog]

With a stiff upper lip who needs a purple heart.
I never could understand getting a medal for being stupid enough to get yourself shot... now a medl for shooting the ENEMY that's a whole different matter.

[PrinzEugen]

I do remember seeing a picture of the Royal Navy skipper of one of the ships that sank the Bismarck, and he only had one row of ribbons...so I think they are little less inclined to just hand them out...

By comparison with the Navy the RAF are notorious for handing out medals by the bucketload. I seem to recall navy Fleet Air Arm pilots were a bit miffed after the Falklands when gongs were dished out to all manner of RAF pilots involved in ops from delivering cargo, to those two long range Vulcan raids on Stanley airfield (they missed) at no risk to the crews, whereas the FAA pilots who went hammer and tongs with the argie airforce got naff-all.