Marine Marksmanship Badges (both pistol and rifle)
Ranked from Marksman to Sharpshooter to Expert
With Expert being the highest level of marksmanship one can reach
If you read all three of these posts, I thank you! Please let me know if there are errors or corrections that I should make or if you have any questions regarding the content. Please let me know/send me a message. I’m always willing to discuss! Thanks again for reading!
-The Combat Action ribbon and the Armed Forces Expeditionary ribbon were both accidentally placed upside down on Barry’s ribbon rack in the show.
-On Barry’s Purple Heart Ribbon you can see what looks like a bronze Oak Leaf Cluster, which means that he has been awarded that medal more than once. However, since he is a Marine, it should have been a Gold Star since the Oak Leaf Clusters are an Air Force/Army thing and Gold Stars are a Navy/Marine/ Coast Guard thing. But that’s neither here nor there.
-Military medals and decorations (of which Barry has both, and I apologize for not making the distinction above but if you’re very curious please let me know and I will be more than happy to inform you of that distinction), while different, are both usually displayed as small “ribbons” on the left upper part of a military members dress uniform, in what is called a ribbon rack.
-There’s also an order in which a service member places their ribbons. Every branch of the military is different when it comes to placement and precedence of awards, medals, and distinctions. Again, if you would like to know why certain ribbons that Barry has on his ribbon rack are in a certain order, please let me know and I’ll be more than willing to explain.
-Many thanks to @/0xhaderx0 on Instagram for helping me put these graphics together!
I thought I reblogged these brilliant and comprehensive posts breaking down Barry’s military service medals from my beloved @martymcdie88mph before, but apparently not. And with the show starting up again I thought other fic writers might find them, like I have, to be a valuable resource. There are three posts total and she really went above and beyond. Thank you darling, I’m so grateful for your hard work!
Me when folks are only just now calling Barry fucked up after he starts showing psychotic symptoms and not while he was merely, you know, murdering people.
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