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Well as the title says, I personally think that individual elemental service medals are a waste of money and only farther divide the elements from each other. I believe that the Canadian Cadet Movement is one movement and should have one medal for all 3 services.
Having individual medals and ribbon must cost a lot as they are made in smaller numbers.
Having one general cadet service medal would not only cost less but it would give a common pride in the CCM in general.
Below is a medal I designed years ago.
Description of the medal and the meaning of the colors of the ribbons etc…
Ribbon from left to right:
Navy blue line = Navy element
Red line = Land / Army element
Sky blue line = Air element.
Green line = Youth, (green often represents fresh plants still in grouth.)
Red white and red representing the Canadian flag.
The medal:
Front: taken from CF medal, however, I thought of having the figure of the Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in his military dress but couldn’t find a nice enough picture. This is the closest I could find:
Rear: All three elements surrounded by a wreath representing a whole, the words CANADA, SERVICE and CADETS all being bilingual would make it a politically correct medal in Canada.
As you go up in service years, once you have your 3rd bar or Red undress ribbon device, you have a Canadian flag on your undress ribbon.
Gold bars could in some way be added or exchanged for people continuing service once they age out, such as CIC or Civilian Instructors, Civilian/parents committees and perhaps unit sponsors.
The Bitish, and Australian Military both have Cadet Service medals which mainly officers get with service with their cadet organizations.
I would like feed back on my idea, and if you like the design in general.
Even if it may never be implemented.
Having individual medals and ribbon must cost a lot as they are made in smaller numbers.
Having one general cadet service medal would not only cost less but it would give a common pride in the CCM in general.
Below is a medal I designed years ago.
Description of the medal and the meaning of the colors of the ribbons etc…
Ribbon from left to right:
Navy blue line = Navy element
Red line = Land / Army element
Sky blue line = Air element.
Green line = Youth, (green often represents fresh plants still in grouth.)
Red white and red representing the Canadian flag.
The medal:
Front: taken from CF medal, however, I thought of having the figure of the Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in his military dress but couldn’t find a nice enough picture. This is the closest I could find:
Rear: All three elements surrounded by a wreath representing a whole, the words CANADA, SERVICE and CADETS all being bilingual would make it a politically correct medal in Canada.
As you go up in service years, once you have your 3rd bar or Red undress ribbon device, you have a Canadian flag on your undress ribbon.
Gold bars could in some way be added or exchanged for people continuing service once they age out, such as CIC or Civilian Instructors, Civilian/parents committees and perhaps unit sponsors.
The Bitish, and Australian Military both have Cadet Service medals which mainly officers get with service with their cadet organizations.
I would like feed back on my idea, and if you like the design in general.
Even if it may never be implemented.