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| Keywords: Blue Ridge Awards, file 05, Jan 2012, port side.jpg en wyswyg This time I attempted to understand the entire ribbon display over time with all of the resources that I have found at this point When I noticed the lack of proper Vietnam War ribbons in the 16 March 2011 photo on BR's FB page and made my comment someone on Blue Ridge realized how badly out of date their ribbon display was It wasn't just the Vietnam ribbons but there were three other ribbons missing and seven other ribbons needing star updates Apparently my censorship was a case of covering up this failure or as would have been as true forty years ago as it is in today's Navy covering ass I have found no single source of accurate information for the missing REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM CAMPAIGN MEDAL but it does come together in the various sources of public record that I have looked at Since U S NAVY AWARDS web site continues to update their records over time there is hope that they will eventually note that time discrepancy in Blue Ridge's time on the GOT Why they aren't tracking all three of the RVN medals is still a big black naval hole The best conclusion I can come up with is that Blue Ridge has not always given much regard to its ribbon history or it's history in general the web history page is one of the worst in the fleet for a forty plus year old ship For a flag ship that is strange given all of it's prancing and dancing across WESTPAC and that is all BR can really claim that is unique about the ship these days to justify itself at all of the BIG budget cuts coming With broadband satellite communications command and control can and has been done from a shore bunker much much cheaper If they ever achieve broadband satellite communication below the waves admirals just might have to hot-rack it on their diplomatic song and dances These are the links of the photos or graphics that I used to piece together the history of BR's ribbon display and the 17 ribbons that should be part of BR's flying bridge display only 16 ribbons are displayed each represents a general point in time for the ribbon display A This NAVSOURCE page apparently shows BR's ribbon display at the point it was captured by the 7th Fleet and homeported in Yokosuka around 1980 For some ribbons it does account for stars beyond that 1980 period in it's legend https //commons wikimedia org/wiki/Category USS_Blue_Ridge_ LCC-19 mediaviewer/File Blue_Ridge_Awards _file_03 jpg B This photo comes from a photo dated 1992 https //commons wikimedia org/wiki/Category USS_Blue_Ridge_ LCC-19 mediaviewer/File Blue_Ridge_Awards _file_03-5 _1992 _starboard_side jpg C This photo was posted to BR's FB wall on 16 March 2011 https //commons wikimedia org/wiki/Category USS_Blue_Ridge_ LCC-19 mediaviewer/File Blue_Ridge_Awards _file_04 _16_March_2011 _port_side jpg D This photo was posted to BR's FB wall on 18 January 2012 https //commons wikimedia org/wiki/Category USS_Blue_Ridge_ LCC-19 mediaviewer/File Blue_Ridge_Awards _file_05 _Jan_2012 _port_side jpg 1 COMBAT ACTION RIBBON Navy Awards CR '72 A ROW 1 - COLUMN 1 TIGER ISLAND '72 B 1-1 C 1-1 D 1-1 2 NAVY UNIT COMMENDATION Navy Awards NU '75 '91 A 1-2 One star BRONZE 1 RVN COLLAPSE '75 B 1-2 One star GOLD 2 DESERT STORM '91 C MISSING <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<ERROR D 2-1 One star GOLD 2 3 MERITORIOUS UNIT COMMENDATION AWARD Navy Awards MU '75 '95 A 2-1 '75 One star BRONZE 1 B 2-1 No star C 2-1 '95 No star <<<<<<<<<<<<ERROR D 2-2 One star GOLD 2 4 NAVY E RIBBON Navy Awards NE 15 noted first one in '72 was earned and it is not recorded A 2-2 B 2-2 C 2-2 D 2-3 5 NATIONAL DEFENSE SERVICE MEDAL Navy Awards not tracked A 2-3 One star B 2-3 One star <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<ERROR C 2-3 One star <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<ERROR D 3-3 Two stars 6 ARMED FORCES EXPEDITIONARY MEDAL Navy Awards AE '75 '75 A 3-1 One star GOLD 2 FREQUENT WIND '75 EAGLE PULL '75 B 3-1 No star <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<ERROR C 3-1 No star <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<ERROR D 3-2 One star GOLD 2 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<ERROR 7 VIETNAM SERVICE MEDAL Navy Awards VS '72-5 months 1 missing July A 3-2 Two stars Campaigns Consolidation II '72 Vietnam Ceasefire '72 B 3-2 One star <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<ERROR C 3-2 No star <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<ERROR D 3-3 Two stars 8 SOUTHWEST ASIA SERVICE MEDAL Navy Awards SA '91 A 3-3 No stars B 3-3 Two stars <<<<<<<<<<<<ERROR C 3-3 No stars D 4-1 THREE STARS <<<<<<<<<<<<ERROR 9 GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM SERVICE MEDAL Navy Awards not tracked A NA B NA C MISSING <<<<<<<<<<<<<ERROR D 4-2 10 KOREA DEFENSE SERVICE MEDAL Navy Awards not tracked Approved 2004 A NA B NA C MISSING <<<<<<<<<<<<<ERROR D 4-3 11 HUMANITARIAN SERVICE AWARD Navy Awards HS '75 '75 '80 '84 A 4-1 EAGLE PULL '75 FREQUENT WIND '75 Two stars B 4-1 No stars <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<ERROR C 4-1 THREE STARS <<<<<<<<<<<<<<ERROR D 5-1 FOUR STARS 12 SEA SERVICE DEPLOYMENT RIBBON Navy Awards not tracked A 4-2 B 4-2 Two stars C 4-2 One star <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<ERROR D 5-2 Four stars 13 ARMED FORCES RESERVE MEDAL Navy Awards not tracked A NA B NA AFTER 1990 C 4-3 D 5-3 14 NAVY MARINE OVERSEAS SERVICE RIBBON Navy Awards not tracked A NA B NA C 5-1 One star D 6-1 Four stars 15 REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM CAMPAIGN MEDAL Navy Awards not tracked July on the GOT missing for the VS that was the 6th month A 4-3 B MISSING <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<ERROR C MISSING <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<ERROR D MISSING <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<ERROR 16 KUWAIT LIBERATION MEDAL KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA Navy Awards not tracked A NA B 4-3 C 5-2 D 6-2 17 KUWAIT LIBERATION MEDAL KUWAIT Navy Awards not tracked A NA B NA C 5-3 D 6-3 Lousy marginal pic Blue Ridge Awards Report https //commons wikimedia org/wiki/Category USS_Blue_Ridge_ LCC-19 mediaviewer/File Blue_Ridge_Awards _file_01 jpg Awards tracked by the Navy Awards Report https //awards navy mil/awards/webdoc01 nsf/ vwDocsByID /DL100707083232/ file/Campaign 20Unit 20Award 20Codes pdf Unit Awards recognized by the Navy https //awards navy mil/awards/webbas01 nsf/ vwWebPage /home htm OpenDocument 2014-06-19 00 49 48 us armed forces usa workers PD-USGov USS Blue Ridge LCC-19 Uploaded with UploadWizard | ||||
