Military medals on jackets

[Sir Robert]

In the USA federal law says that a Veteran can wear his "old" (historical) or the new (current) uniform. Basically if you have ever been in the military you can wear the uniform, that is the law. If you are in civilian attire you can still wear the medals. The problem is that in uniform you wear ribbons, not the whole medal, in Dress Uniform you wear the miniature medals so where do you wear the full size medals? No where? I don't think so.

I wore my full size medals to my wedding on my dress blues, totally dropped all ribbons, just the suspention medals. It was a fashon faux pas, but by God I earned those medals and no where in law am I required to hide them.

In uniform you are protected by law, Federal Law superseeds regulations. If you are not wearing a uniform, I.E. jacket & kilt then you are not subject to regulations. Wear the full size medals. You earned them, flaunt it.

I once was invited to a formal "Dining In" where it was specified that I would wear "everything" so I had Federal, State and ROTC ribbons. I looked like a "Hero of the Soviet Union" 30+ ribbons, it looked bad.

Right now in America is is cool to be a Service Member, it wasn't before, It will not be in the future, abuse it now while you can, before it goes out of fashon.