Re: [OT] Goose Green

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Atkinson" <johnmatkinson@yahoo.com>
> > >If "gong hunting" means what I think it does,
> >
> > Aiming to get a medal. Usually not a posthumous one,
> > if the thinking has
> > progressed that far.
>
> That's what I figured.  It's a perpetual state among
> officers.

Seems to be. In WWII Germany such officers were said to have
"Halsschmerzen" - a "Sore throat".
The Iron Cross medals were worn on a band around the neck.
Thier subordinates were not happy about it.

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