“Big Chicken Dinner” = Bad Conduct Discharge.
Oh, of note: Officers usually don’t get GCMs. They’re expected to always have good conduct.
Tripler
(That’s prolly been covered in a post I haven’t read yet).
Ah, now it makes sense. Thanks Tripler.
Also known (in its british incarnation, at least) as “Undetected Crime” medal.
Almost as bad as the Mong Gong.
Yes. A friend was Air Force enlisted and got decorated for giving first aid to one of her neighbor’s kids and saving the child’s life. This happened at a some other kid’s birthday party.
Yes you need 12 years in a row to get gold stripes in the Navy. It’s an all red or all gold, no mix and match.
:smack:
Am I the only one that thought he actually got a chicken dinner?
Nope. I figured it was the standard government issue retirement dinner, rubber chicken with all the fixings.
I never knew anyone who received a bad conduct discharge, and I knew plenty of people who did some stupid and/or illegal things. One of my supply sergeants spent a month in the Navy brig at Pearl Harbor after they discovered that he was supplementing his income by selling low-value government property off base.