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Yeah, I know, this is probably not correct procedure. We should all accept that I will get the military stuff… adjacent. And don’t worry about the ribbons too much. I cribbed Maxima’s from some Air Force Colonel’s photo I found online, then swapped a few things and might have even recolored one or two, so her salad bar is probably about 40% nonsense. When I was asking about Sydney’s ribbons, I was trying mostly trying to get an idea of how many she might have. That said, I gave her a National Defense Service, a Global War on Terror (Supervillain attacks are easy to categorize as terrorist actions), and a… um, I forgot what the third one is. Expeditionary I think. But I changed all the colors because each branch seems to have their own version. She didn’t get the Basic Military Training Honor, which is reserved for people who do exceptional during training. Sydney passed, but not exceptionally.
It’s been suggested that Sydney might have earned a purple heart for getting dinged by enemy shrapnel when she was off planet, but I think it falls below the threshold for minor wounds. Granted without Frix stitching her up, she might have had a little red scar on her cheek, but let’s be real, it would have been exactly 3.2 pages before I forgot to draw it. She also got punched in the cheek right when the super fight started at the restaurant, but I think bruises also fail to meet the severity threshold. Of course, Dabbler got like 40 little cuts when Heavenly Sword almost got her, but she probably used a “Heal Those Tiny Cuts that Barely Bleed but Mostly Just Itch” spell instead of having a “Physician with Officer Rank” treat her. Come to think of it, Harem would probably qualify when her arm got broken. Jiggawatt got deafened, Math got his nose broken. Heatwave.
Honestly, if the average superhero comic was about a military team, most team member would probably have like 9 Purple Hearts by issue 100. (Also that boxer concussion palsy.) It really feels like something I shouldn’t make light of, but even Arc-SWAT, with their somewhat relaxed schedule of the occasional action scene followed by slice of life antics interspersed with exposition, I can see the team collecting PH’s or oak leaf clusters from a bin after every debrief.
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So we are finally going to meet Papa and Mama Scoville.
And, at first glance, it looks like she takes after daddy. ; )
Was this ever in doubt?
I refer you to page 190:
“I know dad, every hero needs a good origin story. Maybe I’ll get them to declassify it one day.”
“Yes dad, of they make an action figure of me I’ll get a signed one for you, first edition, I promise.”
Fi. Null. Lee.
Let’s see the parentals at the after party!
(I’d like to think that Lt. Col. Leander had already met them when Sydney was M.I.A. with the
“We’re doing everything possible” talk.)
No scrambled eggs on General Faulk’s hat?
Scrambled eggs or Farts and Darts.
In fact, Maxima, being a “Field Grade” Officer, should also have a version of the “Clouds and Darts”. Hers should have 4 and the General should have 6.
I’d say that this is a far more egregious mistake than anything he did with the ribbons, and he should look up images for “Field Grade service cap” and “General Officer service cap” to correct this page.
This could always be explained away by “Archon’s new, we’re working on it.” E.g.: Anything to do with Space Force.
More likely, DaveB simply forgot and can be fixed during post-production for the book version
Saving CO and squad at own sacrifice..portal to scions world arc. That would merit a Silver star. Also might be eligible for pathfinder badge and associated awards.
I would imagine that ARCHON, being a fictional military branch full of comic-book superheroes, would have it’s own set of criteria for things that were appropriately meritorious given a character’s individual abilities. Jumping on a grenade to save your squad is slightly less impressive if you’re as tough as Superman(T).
I think (don’t quote me) that part of the point of the models is that they award the intention behind the act as much as the act itself. Like, if you jumped on a grenade only to discover that it was a dud, you probably still get something out of it, instead of just being told “well, it turns out you weren’t actually in any danger, so you don’t get anything.” Plus while someone like Achilles isn’t getting any medals for jumping on a bog standard grenade, it could easily be argued that since each supers individual power represents an unknown ability that could easily prove to be a counter to yours, every time Achilles jumps in front of a new exotic energy blast or temperal displacement field, he is putting his life in danger. And even if we say “it’s Achilles, he doesn’t count” no one else has his level of durability, and so we can’t jump brush their actions off as risk free. Pretty sure every character has been injured to one degree or another.
I agree that, say, Hiro shouldn’t be expecting a new medal every time he steps in front of a 9mm, but when he’s tanking blows with the mass of a space shuttle behind them (even if he is getting paid a LOT) is it to much for him to expect the government to say “you saved the day from a nation-wide threat again, here’s your reward.”
Though on the other hand I feel like unless they get real stingy with the medals we are going to have a serious Scrooge McDuck money vault problem on our hands, so maybe holding back on the medals and commendations is a good idea, at least until it all gets settled down.
I agree with this. Just because Achilles has been invulnerable so far, does not mean he will continue to be so.
“Don’t treat your immortality lightly. You never know how small a chink in your armour death needs to slip through:
And while Hiro shouldn’t expect an award every time he steps in front of a bullet, I would argue that Hiro’s shirts deserve a purple heart for every mission. They keep bravely sacrificing themselves to ensure the continued survival of Archon’s beefcake ;)
Everyone is immortal until proven otherwise.
“Seems like one of those things that’s best not to make assumptions about.”
Word of God is that Achilles has ” Proper, aggravating invincibility. He has shrugged off attacks that would destroy matter on the subatomic level.” But there’s no reason for Achilles himself to so sure. Just because everything he’s encountered so far just bounces off him doesn’t mean there isn’t something in the universe that could give him trouble. The question is how he’ll react if he does find something that poses an actual risk to him.
Being dropped into a star or a black hole would at least be very boring, and nobody with the power to retrieve him may have an interest in doing so.
He’s only vulnerable when he dresses in drag, because that’s when you see his Achilles heels.
But that does have an upside as well: Achilles heals.
I dunno, actually. Achilles jumping on a grenade (or putting one of those 40mm grenades in his mouth or something) still counts if teammates are in danger and he’s the only one who can neutralize the threat. So maybe it isn’t at great personal sacrifice. It’s still saving teammates (or squishy civilians) who needed saved by doing something nobody else present could have done.
It doesn’t count if the teammates at the moment are Max, Anvil, Hiro, Syd-with-shield-up, and Stalwart, but if somebody is looking at Max, Anvil, Hiro, Syd-with-shield-up, Stalwart, and Achilles, then why would they bother throwing a grenade in the first place?
Keep in mind that your average grenade has terrible mouth feel, so it is a serious sacrifice.
I knew someone was going to say something like this.
Well, somebody tried, even though he had some idea just how tough Max is.
Ok I get ribbons being off, but how did Sydney earn her jump wings. She doesn’t even need to touch the flight ball to float anymore, so how would she make the required day and night parachute jumps to get her gold wings? I see max just turning off her flight, but does Sydney know how to turn off her float?
How sure are we that the jump wings specify parachutes? It’s implicit in our world, simply because we don’t have any other (suitably developed) means of stepping out of a plane at 20,000 feet and walking away at zero feet. But in ARC’s world there are now several other ways of doing that, many of which are individually unique.
I suspect their criteria may instead be a set repertoire of circumstances in which one must show proficiency at getting from airdrop to ground, with some latitude for the individual whether they do so by means of parachutes or Powers. Maybe slight variants for whether the wearer qualified under one or other or both regimes, but still wings.
There’s a hell of a lot of valuable material people learn in Jump school, only some of which actually has to do with jumping out of airplanes and landing unhurt. Paratroopers also get training in signals and communications, the advanced course in navigation and maps and orienteering, classes on taking tactical observations without being seen and/or captured (forward recon guys are in with that class as well), first aid training specific to falling injuries, etc etc etc….
Being able to step out of an aircraft four miles in the air and step away at ground zero is important, but if I see jump wings I do expect to be able to rely on certain kinds of training that Syd has not been shown acquiring.
I wasn’t sure how much of the additional training was actually required for the wings per se, as opposed to being separate qualifications that happen to usually be pursued in parallel. I guess it’s up to DaveB whether the ARC flyers currently have ‘light’ wings pending those extra qualifications, or whether the extra training just wasn’t shown on page because it didn’t present a good opportunity for a plot point or a joke.
One of my favorite tropes is the super who leaps out of the airplane along with his flying teammates, even though he cannot fly. This normally causes some concern, until he reminds them that flying is not necessary when you are good enough at landing.
And then makes a crater and walks away from it. Colossus did this in an X-men comic once. In-setting, it’s the obvious power move for Achilles.
Interestingly, they prefer to land on something hard, like concrete, instead of something soft, like a grassy meadow. Because it’s quicker and easier to walk away if you don’t start six feet underground.
Sydney didn’t open the portal to Alar Prima, she only discovered that ability while there
Not even ‘discovered’ – she didn’t unlock the Causeway functionality until after her battles with the Squiddies, during which she earned the necessary skill points. She did help the team make it safely back through Sciona’s portal though.
Don’t believe that was intentional though, more the fact Mr Buble’s butt got too big to fit through the shrinking portal
Unlocked, discovered, same difference, the point was, she had nothing to do with getting them to Alar Prima, that was all Sci-fright (wait, who was it who blew up the portal causing it to malfunction? Sydney or Dabbles?)
At last, we get a chance to meet the father, tyevalpha geek!
Lol Sydney’s serious face. And her dad!
Dads are always the same.
Embarrassing their children in front of hundreds of people.
yep, its right there in the briefing notes. they go over it while the dad joke infiltration starts. there’s even a dad joke in there somewhere to see if it has started to work.
It’s necessary to embarass your child to make sure they are eager to move out as soon as possible.
This is actually pretty true to form. There’s usually a formal reading of the citation and authority, something like “All who hear these presents, welcome. Blah blah blah on 24 Nov 2021 Pvt Scoville blah blah blah given under my hand, Gen Fillintheblank, commander, unit.” It would be a wall of text here, so Max’s abbreviated summary works quite well.
I think the GWOT and expeditionary medal are switched, but that’s a minor nitpick. Heck, there was one General who wore his ribbon rack to the State of the Union upside down. Stuff happens.
Re: citation of action; I’m betting all of the off-world activities are at least Classified, if not Secret or higher, so they wouldn’t cite the mission that got her the medal, because announcing at the ceremony that “in action no one in the audience has security clearance to know about,…..” etc., would just raise questions.
I don’t think they give public rewards for classified events.
This could be for one of her more public actions.
For example coming up with the plan to take down Vehemence or her actions during the New York super/alien fight.
Plus, the only one who even knows what happened off-world is… Sydney, and it certainly as smell from a chip-shop wasn’t a sanctioned mission or even an intended one
She’s getting it for what Smoutwortel says, and the only reference to what happened off-world is the last bit: “continued perseverance under extraordinary circumstances”
“Continued” is redundant. You can’t persevere at something without continuing to do it. It is, however, exactly the sort of thing our old sergeant would have said.
Yes, it is I, General Philip Inthablanc!
Ah yes, the field commander of Private John Doe and Specialist Skippy
I personally know Skippy and the former Mrs. Skippy, both of whom are nice people. And the former Mrs. Skippy is as much “off” as he is, I think as a survival mechanism from being married to Skippy.
The military actually does allow acceptance speeches for awards, It usually depends on the award and how many people are getting it at the time though. Most though are not for public display but when it is given in front of the unit only.
It also depends on how terrified the brass is of the things that the service member being decorated might say.
Syd has been making great strides in not deploying her weapons-grade vocabulary, but not such great strides at saying anything vaguely appropriate to the situation without verbally tripping up and falling all over herself or straying into things that are unnecessarily personal or too close to things that are secret or classified, etc. Or just making light-cycle noises. Her mouth is still a liability and planning for an event to go smoothly still involves worrying about it.
Now we know where Sidney gets it from.
All of it.
1000 Nights and a Night, ADHD superpowered fangirl edition
I love her parents already!
Yay! It’s the ‘rents!
Heroes aren’t allowed to have nice things, so who of the privous villain gallery will blow up this party?
Someone tried to take syd’s dad hostage and we learn where she got her tongue foo from
Wonder if its a charge-able offense to concuss ones embarrassing folks during a military award ceremony.
I think that would fall under the charge of Battery. If her dad pressed charges. Pretty sure her co would have words about it as well.
People often say “if the victim presses charges”
Fun fact, cops and the legal system can press charges without the approval of a victim with enough proof. They often don’t because the system is overworked enough as it stands, but they can.
Same as “retracting” a charge. Once it’s been filed that’s up to the DA. And if you filed charges just to teach someone a lesson” you can be on the hook for wasting police time.
(Sorry, nothing personal, just read other posts on other places and kept seeing similar remarks)
At least where I live the legal system can only press charges for more serious and suppressed charges(like murder, chantage and rape. Whether battery is also part of it I don’t know).
Sooo… Colonel, you recognize the light cycle sounds?
Tsk, tsk, tsk :-)
Honestly, people by now expect some geek/nerd/weird stuff from the Mighty Halo.
And as she keeps it quiet shows the progress she made and should look good for Archon’s training.
The ADHD nerd was doing perfect straight lines and 90 degree turns, while making weird noises. You dont NEED to know what a lightcycle sounds like, because 2+2 = 4.
You need to know what a lightcycle _is_.
Max was long ago established as a “nerd”, so it shouldn’t be that surprising.
Max is at least old enough to remember when Tron was getting heavy play on cable TV and was common on video store shelves.
That’s what I was coming to the comments section to comment on: congratz/condolences to Max for recognizing what Sydney was doing. Heh.
Maxi knows about Ioun Stones
Of course, she got a different medal from her teammates that instead of an emblem, said on it ‘Has Seen Some Shit’.
I thought they were keeping that medal for anyone who has to go through live sewers in the line of duty?
wow, finally, the first time we are seeing Sydney’s parents (from afar, but it still counts.)
also, congrats Sydney.
Who told Sydney she can’t smile on being awarded a gong?
(‘Gong’ = Aussie slang for a medal)
Also, from an Aussie Air Force point of view – you yanks give out way too many gongs. Discuss. ;)
Not much of a discussion there, Aus, though they can be useful at quickly sizing up where someone’s been. I’m still waiting to see my first Antarctica Service Medal in the field. Actually, probably more likely to see it in this strip worn by a super.
Been waiting to see one of those since Reagan was in office and Australian football was shown LIVE on ESPN (gods I pulled late nighters to watch those). Took me a while to realize the people that would have that are of a posistion, rank and postings that I’d never see them except in a weird set of circumstances i.e. kaiju turn out to be real and I end up squashed in the first reel.
Eh, it goes both ways. I know a handful of people who didn’t get a gong for quickly fixing critical equipment that broke down mid-mission (luckily I got one for when it happened to my equipment and I fixed it) and I also know people who got one for literally keeping the vending machines stocked.
Hey hungry soldiers are bad business.
Stocked vending machines might be the only things that keeps them from revolting.
*JK.
An army marches on its stomach.
Most successful armies march on their feet…
Feel free to fact-check Fredrick the Great if you like, but I’m siding with the actual military conqueror. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/10/15/army/
Not saying it’s not a quote, but when was the last time you saw anyone walk, let alone march, on their stomach? Specially considering most people can’t locate their stomach if you hand them a scalpel and tell them to get cutting
Except if you tell them it’s the part that hurts after having eaten military rations for a week.
They would more likely take the scapel to their anus.
That’s still not the stomach
Gotta keep em supplied with chupaquesos, or they’ll start eating the Kreelies.
But scuttlebutt has that they’re delicious… at least when they’re young, tender, and pre-sentient :)
I suppose a discussion of the disadvantage of making your uniform as heavy as a flak vest with too many “Gongs” versus the incidental armor said Gongs provide would be interesting.
If you get a medal each time you deploy, they are either trying to kill you or you are being given too many.
Love her parents already. As far as I can tell from afar, Sydney got her personality from Dad and her nerdette looks from Mom (the long-suffering voice of reason and restraint in the house).
Ribbonwise, wouldn’t taking part in the Fel battle qualify for a different service medal from the restaurant battle? Alien invasion is rather different from supervillain scuffle. Although admittedly Sid played little part in the Fel event. Then there is the interstellar travel to the Alari world and back, which went public too. Last but not least, the fights with Sciona. Everything about them is heavily classified due the Council’s involvement, but I suppose the military has a way of acknowledging heroics in secret operations too.
So does everybody on the team qualify for the Air and Space campaign ribbon? Most of them fought the Fel; Sydney was lost in space for a while and Peggy took a trip in Cora’s ship,somewhere.
Sydney wasn’t part of the Fel-repel, at all!!!!
… When did Peggy take a trip in Cora’s ship? :thinking:
When she got that new leg.
Just after the negotiations about the Fel ship were done.
… Forgot she got a new leg
This is totally off the subject, but I can’t post anything at the Grrl Power FaceBook page.
Is there anyone who is a Wikipedia editor?
It would seem that Grrl Power does not have a Wikipedia entry, much less a page. I think 1001 posted pages over 11 years is more than good enough.
Oh, and congratulations, Sydney. They make jokes about surviving Basic, but in your case there were many occasions when you might not have, and yet here you are.
Wikipedia notability is determined by the presence of separate reliable sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources talking about the thing in question , not anything like the number of pages. If there are specific comic reviews or the like, that would matter. But page count doesn’t by itself.
Well, we all found out about it somehow. If only we could remember where from. But it would be surprising if there wasn’t some discussion elsewhere about it.
https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?622216-Grrl-Power-VI-Stripping-The-Hero-Doesnt-Work
That dude who made an interactive map of Sydeney’s amazeballs.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/GrrlPower
https://www.reddit.com/r/grrlpowercomic/
http://topwebcomics.com/vote/11940
The based on the list of sources used in the girlgeniusonline page this should be enough, although I would advice to make a very wordy plot description to.
To prove it’s existence: https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?622216-Grrl-Power-VI-Stripping-The-Hero-Doesnt-Work
https://www.webcomicshub.com/webcomics/grrl-power
https://www.reddit.com/r/grrlpowercomic/
https://spicefreak.blog/grrl-power-comic/
https://www.comic-rocket.com/explore/grrl-power/
(topwebcomics is a review site although more boolean like)https://topwebcomics.com/vote/11940
https://tropedia.fandom.com/wiki/Grrl_Power
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1001-arc-box-achievement-unlocked/
http://www.jasonloveslife.com/grrl-power-webcomic-review/
I myself learned of its existence through https://www.ohnorobot.com/ and topwebcomics.
Fairly sure found this from a random ad or something, way back when there were only a few pages, so long before Sydney’s balls were even on display
I found it because of a Flash ad from Project Wonderful.
What is next for Sydney and the rest of ARCSwat?
Maybe jump ahead to Corporal Scoville and Maxi gets her general’s star!?
Maybe make Max a full-bird colonel as she is ‘only’ a Light (lieutenant) colonel right now.
So I guess that all supers on the team that can fly get airborne wings since Sydney has them.
Sydney: I still don’t see the point of learning all that parachute stuff. I just floated down the whole was down using the flight orb on automatic. I mean I didn’t even deploy the parachute on the first jump and it just fluttered on the way down on the next two. I know, I’ll fly up to the ISS and then I get my Astronaut wings.
Jigs can’t fly, neither can Jabs or Vahriah, and they all have the ‘wings’
Vahriah probably can when holding onto the right person.
I expect those ones actually used their parachutes in more conventional ways.
Good job on the Commendation Medal. All services use the same medal design, but different ribbon colors. Also, nice touch on the V Device for Valor on the ribbon. Being as Archon is a new branch, and a superhero branch at that, I think a little leeway on medals and ribbons and uniforms is cool.
Now that we’re certain we’ve all the current pieces about arch-mages I’m curious.
How does one normally become an Arch-mage?
They’re described as lonely individuals, but also as individuals powerful and from the peasants removed enough to consider them a resource, so it seems that the process of becoming an arch-mage is neither fully dynastic, nor fully equal opportunity.
My guess is that they’re creatures of elite decent who for all kinds of scandalous and intriguing reasons have to say farewell to the normal elite interaction system and thus need a good reason and place to hide from it without being treated like a peasant.
If I’m right I would expect the “Arch” part of their position to indicate that due to an originally exceptionally high elite status they hire other lower mages to do tasks for them, so their research furthers faster than that of your normal mage.
Maxima whisper ‘I sense a familiar dynamic in play’
Apparently Jiggawatt’s deafness wouldn’t count. (I assume because hearing loss is practically universal in soldiers who see actual combat.) Neither would Dabler’s minor cuts; The injury has to be enough to put you out of action for a while. Heatwave might qualify for the loss of her toe.
Dad had a Purple Heart from WWII, he never explained how he came by it, but he spent the war servicing planes in England, and shop accidents wouldn’t count. Well, I suppose they were being bombed…
https://www.hrc.army.mil/content/Purple%20Heart#:~:text=Each%20approved%20award%20of%20the,medical%20officials%3B%20and%20the%20records
Would Sydney have counted for the events in Times Square, when she was poisoned with that truth serum? Or does that not count for truth serum?
My grandfather was an airplane mechanic, in England too. Not sure where all of those pictures from the camps came from. Or the desert. With all those planes having 85 or more missions. Or him grinning his fool head off in front of the Enola Gay. (No nose art.)
Someone with scrambled eggs says, “Don’t talk about out this”–back then, they didn’t.
Gonna say that Archon is going to be awarding Oak clusters and V for Valor devices, but they don’t generally stack medals.
The ribbons colors are completely up to you Dave, they don’t have to be ‘real’ in any way, since Arc is a new organization I’m a bit surprised they are taking the standard military medals and don’t have their own. This also includes any ‘standards’ for awards and so on. In fact you could even go so far as to bash the whole code of conduct thing and do your own due to exceptional circumstances.
Realism is good but world building is better. As long as it’s relatable there won’t be too much fuss.
New services use the regulations of their parent service until they re-write their own, so uniforms, rank structure, ribbons, etc. are going to be (mostly) Air Force until they do a lot of things.
Now TRADITIONS are a different matter. And a super-military is going to have some WEIRD ones!
Let’s also not forget that many ribbons have ranks. You can have one, and then later earn a higher ranked one that replaces the lower ranked one.
Nice to see that Sydney’s dad is nice. Given comic tropes, it was a 75% of him being abusive and/or a super villain.
We already knew he was going to be nice and fun-loving from the phonecall Sydney had with her parents. Her mother wanted to make sure they’d train her for stuff like police procedures, while her father wanted to make sure he got a limited edition Halo action figure when they came out and was more interested in the superhero-ish training. :)
So it SEEMS like mom’s the more grounded and responsible one, and probably the more disciplinarian one, and dad is the more imaginative and flighty one, and probably the reason for Sydney’s love of superhero stuff, comic books, and tropey out-of-the-box thinking (dad is the ‘cool nerd parent.’:) )
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-190-newhart-phonecall/
Yes, but highly likely that Sydney’s foul mouth is her mother’s influence.
Does the Commanding Officer look like David Wallace, or is that just me?
Nope, the dude from the fourth Alien movie (he played a high ranking officer in that movie as well)
Dan Hedaya
Yups, that’s the guy
When it’s a military super team and everyone’s a hero the bar for what constitutes “above and beyond service” to qualify for decorations would have to be quite a bit higher. For example, a normal soldier braving enemy fire to rescue multiple wounded squad mates would and should merit a decoration for bravery. A super that’s bulletproof doing the same thing not so much.
Remember, the only thing that makes Sydney a ‘super’ are her balls (and possibly her resistance to chemical weapons ingested)
This and the preceding page remind me enough about the ending of the first Police Academy movie, that I’d check under any podium before stepping to one to hold a speech… :D
Lol, if ANYONE does THAT to Max, we will see how high she can throw a human.
She can throw a human so high that they don’t come back down.
I don’t say any wound that leaves you permanently maimed would qualify for a Purple Heart, so Heatwave would probably have one for actually losing a toe. I also like that Sydney and Maxima have variant of Air Force pilot wings. Whether intended or not, I think having a badge that acknowledges natural fliers for a miliSupers team is a good idea.
Those look to me like Airborne (Paratrooper) wings, not pilot wings.
And all of the females are wearing them
I’m hyped to meet Sydney Scoville Senior.
The mother seem like the trope of the girl that exist to highlight the other’s immaturity. She should take a drink with Max.
On a different note, the joke about Sydney making “light cycle” noises killed me! Got me as really funny when I wasn’t expecting it.
It’s official. Sydney’s father is my favorite character in the webcomic.
We know where she gets her unique behavior from! And she needs to remember to get him that limited first edition Halo action figure.
*Sad Deus lurking in the background*
As if I’d limit my love of Deus to just a webcomic.
I’m already setting up the 501c3 for the Church of Deus.
Glad I could help with the ribbons. Feel free to reach out if ya have any questions about that type of stuff. I enjoy the comic.
“Of course, Dabbler got like 40 little cuts when Heavenly Sword almost got her,”
I admittedly know little to nothing about military but I don’t think Dabbler could get a Purple Heart anyway, because she’s not military. She’s a ‘civilian consultant.’ Maybe there’s a civilian equivalent though?
The civilian equivalent is a bonus and yes both medals and bonuses are financial rewards. If you give the medal back you get money, so they’re essentially more financially stable bonuses from a civilian perspective.
The medals themselves are legally ‘worth not more than five dollars’.
Is this true? And the medals are never made of any sort of precious metals (gold, silver, etc)? I’d think that even if it was gold plating, that would still be more than $5, or even just pure numismatic value.
If so (that the medals are legally not allowed to be worth more than $5), what’s the reasoning for it? I’m genuinely curious and not knowledgeable enough about this to argue about it.
Good question:
this thread made me search some wikipedia where I found interesting stuff.
Although I’ve not yet found the law itself I suspect it is a way to avoid British problems.
Explanation: British medals are worth a lot to the right people(1.5 million pounds for the highest Victoria cross auction mentioned on wikipedia), but this also means they get stolen all the time. What I think this law means that if someone were to sell a military medal they can’t ask more than 5 dollars.
Also the information I put in my previous post applies to all kinds of countries, but not to the USA, so I was wrong.
Sorry.
read the StormJack thread below for better sight on the American reward system.
If this is true, that’s very interesting.
It was from a law I saw somewhere stating the types of awards that could be given out and after each of the points it said that the medals should be ”of a value not more than five dollars”. Granted I think it was from a time of silver and gold dollars. No, idea at all if it is still valid.
I’ve done my best to find information on this, and I can’t find any law that states this.
Assuming it’s true (which I’m beginning to think it’s not because of how hard it’s been for me to find ANYTHING about it), then it would definitely depend on the time at which the law was made. For example, the legally specified amount for theft to be considered petty larceny has changed multiple times. Today, it’s $100 or less. When my law professors were in law school, they told me it used to be $20. In the 1800s, it was probably a LOT less since you could buy a horse for $10 during the civil war (or a horse AND saddle for $15). And I’m pretty sure horse theft was not considered petty larceny. :)
Because, yknow, inflation. Assuming that rule was an actual law. :)
Eh, oh well. I’m ordering a hat with ”Contents May Settle During Shipping”.
…. okay now I want a hat like that just for the lulz.
Dabbler’s heart is already purple.
Here’s the thing about medals – aside from a couple of notable exceptions, all those ribbons and medals still require $5 to get you a cup of coffee. The exceptions being the Medal of Honor with all its attendant benefits, and the Silver Star, which guarantees your kids get automatic acceptance to the military academies.
So the Silver Star is “Man, we hope your badassery is passed down genetically” then. XD
Depends on the service. In the Air Force, that PARTICULAR medal is something like three additional points towards promotion testing and will be used in consideration of other military boards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted_Airman_Promotion_System#Awards_and_decorations
It’s a bigger deal than it sounds. Promotion numbers are VERY tight as you’re competing with your peers.
And next is the “shake and take” for the “citation to accompany the awards” for the photographs. I suspect we’ll skip that part, but a copy of the photo is going to be on the mantle of Sr. who we’re about to meet!
Mantle? He’s going to have a signed copy in his wallet (with a dozen backups plus extras to hand out), and have it tattooed somewhere displayable (so, not his arse :P ), most likely his chest so she is always near his heart :D
Mental image: Scoville Senior kidnapped by ‘mundane’ criminals who don’t realise his connection to ARC. When they threaten him with a gun, he defiantly rips his shirt open to reveal the tattoo and demands “Do you know who you’re messing with?!”.