Talk:Global War on Terrorism Service Medal

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For those of you wondering, this award is is awarded to everyone in the military who is not in Boot Camp or their MOS school and has been in the "fleet"(as we call it in the Marine Corps) for over 30 days. Its real easy to tell the brand new "boots" from the ones tht have been around for a little while by whether they have the GWOT Service an the National Defense or only the National Defense. Gelston 19:03, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Not sure what it means to be "in the fleet" since I don't speak USMC, but something sounds wrong about that statement. There are many positions in the military which will not afford one the opportunity to support the GWOT within 30 days of being MOSQed. --VAcharon 17:49, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

They've gone back and forth on this one a couple of times. As it stands, I think they are awarding the GWOTS to anyone who is on active duty or active reserve; because HQMC is considering everything to be in support of the war, even recruiting and fixing trucks in Okinawa. But they have changed the policy a couple of times; last I heard, they stopped giving it so freely; and the last ball I went to (2006), some of the boots had only thier pizza stain. Bahamut0013 11:56, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Incidentally I just got photos of my brother's graduation from army training, and he had this medal on his board. So it seems like anyone gets it if they're in the army right now, whether or not they've been involved in any campaign. - Keith D. Tyler ¶ 17:36, 24 April 2008 (UTC)